Margo's beauty was a kind of sealed vessel of perfection--uncracked and uncrackable.

The only thing worse than having a party that no one attends is having a party attended only by two vastly, deeply uninteresting people.

The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention. The guy who invented the smallpox vaccine didn't actually invent anything. He just noticed that people with cowpox didn't get smallpox.

I hated being careful, too - or wanted to, at least.

She has enough black eyeliner on to outline a corpse, and her skin's so pale she looks like she's just broken dawn.

You were clearly not doing your part in the clover search, perv.

He took a long drink, then grimaced. “I do not have a drinking problem,” he announced, his voice needlessly loud. “I have a Churchillian relationship with alcohol: I can crack jokes and govern England and do anything I want to do. Except not drink.