If there's anything I look down on, it's a man in a blue outfit.

The trouble about jumping was that if you didn't pick the right number of stories, you might still be alive when you hit bottom.

I am still so naïve; I know pretty much what I like and dislike; but please, don’t ask me who I am. A passionate, fragmentary girl, maybe?

I don't see what women see in other women," I'd told Doctor Nolan in my interview that noon. "What does a woman see in a woman that she can't see in a man?" Doctor Nolan paused. Then she said, "Tenderness.

I felt like a racehorse in a world without racetracks.

I knew chemistry would be worse, because I'd seen a big card of the ninety-odd elements hung up in the chemistry lab, and all the perfectly good words like gold and silver and cobalt and aluminum were shortened to ugly abbreviations with different decimal numbers after them.

Out of the ash I rise with my red hair and I eat men like air.