Everyone on earth would never starve and forever find love and happiness, since we won, but if we’d lost, they would have gouged out our eyes and thrown us naked onto hot coals and poisonous snakes for all the cheering and hugging at the end, strangers hugging like the end of The Omega Virus when Steve Sturmine finds the antidote.

Tell it to everyone you know, but pretend you're kidding.

If you wish to avoid an unpleasant story you had best put this book down

In this book, not only is there no happy ending, there is no happy beginning and very few happy things in the middle.

the table of elements does not contain one of the most powerful elements that make up our world, and that is the element of surprise.

I'm sure you have heard it said that appearance does not matter so much, and that it is what's on the inside that counts. This is, of course, utter nonsense, because if it were true then people who were good on this inside would would never have to comb their hair or take a bath, and the whole world would smell even worse than it already does.

I’d ruin any day, all my days, for those long nights with you, and I did.