“I had no intention of anyone ever finding out what I had done.”

“I had never been able to truly hate anyone who’d suffered, no matter what evils they’d done in the aftermath.”

“I had an alarm, I had nerve gas, I had a yogurt. What more could anyone want?”

“I'd finally come to understand what it had been: a yearning for a way out, when actually what I had wanted to find was a way in.”

“I don't believe anyone that I know in the administration ever said that Iraq had nuclear weapons.”

“I tried to find out what had happened to you. I Googled you in quotes- got no results.”

“It wasn't good, he wasn't good, he did not have good intentions. I stood there, and he stood there. He breathed out the bitter air that makes women doubt everything, and I breathed it in, as I had always done.”

“Even then he had those piercing cat's eyes of his and when he had said something, finished up by saying: "If I'm wrong, put me right." And so I began to understand that you didn't speak for the sake of speaking, to say that you had done this or that, what you had eaten or drunk, but to work out an idea, to find out what makes the world go round.”

“Life, it turns out, is infinitely more clever and adaptable than anyone had ever supposed.”

“In a way, I was incrediibly proud of her (not that I had any intention of letting it show while I was beating the crap out of her).”