“Polly wants a cracker
Think I should get off her first
Think she wants some water
To put out the blow torch.”

“I think we got in more trouble with Aunt Tasha,ʺ said Christian. ʺShe was kind of pissed off that we didnʹt tell her what was going on. I think she probably wanted to blow up the statues herself.”

“I don’t think I will get married,” Polly said as she stood up. “I’m going to train to be a hero instead.”

“But why do I notice everything? She thought. Why must I think? She did not want to think. She wanted to force her mind to become a blank and lie back, and accept quietly, tolerantly, whatever came.”

“If it's easy to be friendly she will be. If the wind blows the other way her friendship will be gone. And I'm thinking the wind is blowing the other way. She has found some other way to be an important person in her own right by hating others.”

“I want to get out in the water. I wanted to see fish, real fish, not fish in a laboratory.”

“She wanted—what some people want throughout life—a grief that should deeply touch her, and thus humanize and make her capable of sympathy.”

“I want to cut off her head and take out her heart.”

“I'm a Republican, I'm a conservative, I'm in first place, I want to run as a Republican and I think I'll get the nomination… [Hillary Clinton] is easily the worst Secretary of State in the history of the country. She's going to be beaten and I'm the one to beat her.”

“No woman really wants a man to carry her off; she only wants him to want to do it.”