“And that was the closest I've ever come to an epiphany.”

“Entrails. No hissing. This is the closest we will ever come to love.”

“The closest you will ever come in this life to an orderly universe is a good library.”

“Blay was the closest thing to an angel Qhuinn had ever come near.”

“I thought that intimacy with another soul was the closest I could ever come to leaving my body.”

“And the closest I've come to an out-of-body experience was when Joe Morelli took his mouth to me fourteen years ago, behind the eclair case.”

“Sometimes, when I clean a kill, I feed Buttercup the entrails. He has stopped hissing at me.
Entrails. No hissing. This is the closest we will ever come to love.”

“Best friends are important. They're the closest thing to a sister you'll ever have.”

“The closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow.”

“It is by finding out what something is not that one comes closest to understanding what it is.”