I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it -- to be fed so much love I couldn't take any more. Just once.

Someone once said that nothing costs more and yields less benefit than revenge,” Aomame said. “Winston Churchill. As I recall it, though, he was making excuses for the British Empire’s budget deficits. It has no moral significance.

A theory is a battlefield in your head.

My biggest fault is that the faults I was born with grow bigger each year.

I can be hurt, you know. I can get as exhausted as anybody else. I can feel so bad I want to cry, too.

Does G get angry because it follows F in the alphabet? Does page 68 in a book start a revolution because it follows 67?

Spend your money on the things money can buy. Spend your time on the things money can’t buy.