There you have it: our lives in a nutshell. Emphasis on nut.

My life would never contain a convenient, pain-saving plan when it could stretch a problem out into an endless agony of uncertainty and torture.

I don't know why, but life is usually more complicated than the plans that we make.

Fang. I had to do some thinking about him. Me. I had some thinking to do about me too.

The house was on fire," i greeted them tersely. "In case you're interested." they both glanced up overhead as if to make sure the house was still standing. Fang sniffed, smelling the smoke. It's out, right?" he said

Nowhere will you meet more interesting people than in books.

"I feel like, like pudding," Iggy groaned. "Pudding with nerve endings. Pudding in great pain."