You're like this leopard who's pretending to be a house cat.

It's not that I don't know that it's a bad idea. It's that, lately, bad ideas have a particular hold over me.

I can’t help feeling a little bit competitive and a little bit disappointed in myself that I’m already so far behind. After all, Yulikova thinks Barron has a real future with the Bureau. She told me so. I told her that sociopaths are relentlessly charming. I think she figured I was joking.

I thought weirdness was a good thing. I don't mean that defensively, either. I thought it was something to be cultivated.

Carney is like a graveyard where everyone already owns their plots and has built houses on top of them.

I'm afraid that whatever I touch is spoilt by the contact." "I'm not scared of being spoiled," Val said.

They say that nameless things change constantly—that names fix them in place like pins.