All scientists are mad scientists. It’s just a question of how long you can keep yourself from starting to look thoughtfully at the nearest thunderstorm.

Why are there so many words that sound exactly the same, only one of them is right and one of them is wrong, and if you use the wrong one everyone looks at you like you’re stupid and then you need to stab somebody to make the point that there are a lot of different types of intelligence and anyway English is hard.

When you’re going to play with dead things, do it during the daylight.

He’ll die first, we both know it, but I don’t know... I really don’t know how long I’ll stay alive without him. That’s the part Shaun doesn’t know. I don’t intend to be an only child for long.

Haven’t you ever noticed how when a man says one thing, and the woman says another thing, people will almost always believe the man is the one who’s telling the truth? Even if she has more proof than he does.

Nothing is impossible to kill. It’s just that sometimes after you kill something you have to keep shooting it until it stops moving.

But my name is Georgia Mason. And I am here to tell you the truth.

News is news and spin is spin, and when you introduce the second to the first, what you have isn’t news anymore. Hey, presto, you’ve created opinion.

Don’t start. My mood stays better if you don’t start.

Good,” said Olivia. She paused before asking, “May I have a hug, please? I don’t want to impose. But I very much want a hug right now.