Knowing that you are going to die is, I suspect, the beginning of wisdom.

Privilege (to the privileged) means having private laws.

What was the point of education, he thought, if people went out afterward and used it?

Gravity is a habit that is hard to shake off.

Mort was hurt by this. It was one thing not to want to marry someone, but quite another to be told they didn't want to marry you.

If my father could have sat up in bed and said goodbye, I'd have pressed the button. I wouldn't have been able to see for crying, but I would have considered that a duty.

I'm fairy godmothering a girl who sounds like something you put up in the rain.