Everybody will die, but very few people want to be reminded of that fact.

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 don't know if you've ever noticed this, but first impressions are often entirely wrong.

When somebody is a little bit wrong - say, when a waited puts nonfat milk in your espresso macchiato, instead of lowfat milk - it is often quite easy to explain to them how and why they are wrong. But if somebody is surprisingly wrong - say, when a waiter bites your nose instead of taking your order - you can often be so surprised that you are unable to say anything at all. Paralyzed by how wrong the waiter is, your moth would hang slightly open and your eyes would blink over and over, but you would be unable to say a word.

who would dare think that, forever? Some idiot girl who wouldn’t know how things played out.

Beef. Yes. Roast beef. It's the Swedish term for beef that is roasted.

Everything. A letter may be coded, and a word may be coded. A theatrical performance may be coded, and a sonnet may be coded, and there are times when it seems the entire world is in code. Some believe that the world can be decoded by performing research in a library. Others believe that the world can be decoded by reading a newspaper. In my case, the only thing that made sense of the world was you, and without you the world will seem as garbled and tragic as a malfunctioning typewrit9.