But you can’t live your life worried about dying all the time. If you do, you’re dead already.

Or that I couldn't stand to watch anything bad happen to you, because it was like it was happening to me too. Is that love?

The nurse knocked softly on the door of the examining room and wheeled in a shiny silver tray displaying neatly arranged instruments of torture.

It was better that we never apologized to each other. Then we'd be admitting that we were wrong and we owed each other something. That's where people got into trouble.

Your lot in life? A lot is something you draw, like straws. It's chance. You didn't get this life by chance. You chose it on purpose. If you're dissatisfied from it, you can change it.

Boys are two years behind girls in maturity level.

Yes, I was good at reading people. I studied them so I could put them in my novels.