“If you were not to be its victim, this book and body would amuse you with its arrogance. It would make you laugh. Because you were not its victim, you could feel no pain of betrayal.”

“Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn't matter; only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the real betrayal.”

“He made one laugh sometimes by speaking the truth, but this is a form of humour which gains its force only by its unusualness; it would cease to amuse if it were commonly practised.”

“Would you buy a book proudly stating on the cover that its reader is a dummy? Or would you think "of course it's ironic?"”

“If you remove yourself far enough from the limited point of view of pain, you will see that we are all nothing but the victims of victims.”

“You fell in love with someone because of the tilt of his smile, or because he could make you laugh, or in this case, because he made you believe that you were the only one who could save him.”

“It kills the pain. You go back until at last you are beyond its reach. Only the past when you were happy is real.”

“According to Mona, you shouldn't kill people, because that drives you away from humanity. In order to justify killing, you have to make the victim your enemy. To justify any crime, you have to make the victim your enemy.”

“No one is ever a victim, although your conquerors would have you believe in your own victimhood. How else could theu conquer you?”

“Assume that every problem in your life is a lesson to make you stronger. Then you never feel like a victim.”