We're all kind of weird and twisted and drowning.

There’s nothing wrong with not looking like something. It just means you don’t fit the stereotype yet.

Colours shone with exceptional clarity in the rain. The ground was a deep black, the pine branches a brilliant green, the people wrapped in yellow looking like special spirits that were allowed to wander over the earth on rainy mornings only.

Let me just tell you this, Watanabe," said Midori, pressing her cheek against my neck. "I'm a real, live girl, with real, live blood gushing through my veins. You're holding me in your arms and I'm telling you that I love you. I'm ready to do anything you tell me to do. I may be a little bit mad, but I'm a good girl, and honest, and I work hard, I'm kind of cute, I have nice boobs, I'm a good cook, and my father left me a trust fund. I mean, I'm a real bargain, don't you think? If you don't take me, I'll end up going somewhere else.

Grandfather always said school’s a place where they take sixteen years to wear down your brain. Grandfather hardly went to school either.

What gave money its true meaning was its dark-night namelessness, its breathtaking interchangeability.

It seems to me that very sad things always contain an element of the comical