“I know what they'd like, they'd like a blank they could fill in. A person already filled in disturbs them terribly.”

“A few said they'd be horses. Most said they'd be some sort of cat. My friend said she'd like to come back as a porcupine. I don't like crowds, she said.”

“You could not be filled with hate and be beautiful. Like any other girl, I wanted to be beautiful. But I was filled with hate.”

“Like I, of all people, didn't know better than to lead a total stranger to the point where they could hurt me most, knowing how easily they'd be able to find their way back to it.”

“I've always been misrepresented. You know, I could dress in a clown costume and laugh with the happy people but they'd still say I'm a dark personality.”

“They'd been standing like that for thirty seconds of forever.”

“I understood we used to be close. But they were like books i'd read two summer ago; I knew I'd liked them, but I couldn't tell you now what they'd been about.”

“I expect most psychiatrists have a patient or two they'd like to refer to me.”

“Admittedly, people of a theological bent are often chronically incapable of distinguishing what is true from what they'd like to be true.”

“What an author doesn't know could fill a book.”