1. “I’m unhappy. I don’t want to fall in love with you. It’ll hurt far too much when it’s over”
2. “And yet it was her life that was going to be turned inside out. She would be forced to explain herself and to beg for forgiveness because she had defended herself.”
3. “I don’t give a damn what you do with your money. Just sign here that you received it and you can get drunk in peace.”
4. “Don’t call me crazy.I’m a survivor. I do what I have to do to survive.”
5. “You could get pretty angry with less provocation. She”
6. “When their love was not reciprocated, it could quickly turn to violent hatred.”
7. “Only a woman who had killed a man in battle was allowed to give up her virginity.”
8. “Faste knew better than to argue with a doctor, since they were the closest things to God’s representatives here on Earth.”
9. “She was surprised to be alive. Yet she felt indifferent. If death was the black emptiness from which she had just woken up, then death was nothing to worry about.”
10. “Men who just call to say hello generally have ulterior motives.”
11. “It was troubling that one of the few people she trusted was a man she spent so much time avoiding”
12. “Nobody can avoid falling in love,” he said. “They might want to deny it, but friendship is probably the most common form of love.”
13. “I’m not going to apologize for the way I’ve led my life.”
14. “By your reasoning, you want the rules of capitalism to apply solely to the employees of SMP, while you and the stockholders will be exempt.”
15. “What an excellent tool the internet is for freaks.”
16. “Too many cooks might wreck the whole dish.”
17. “This is how it goes. We are born. We live. We grow old. We die. He had played his part. All that remained was the disintegration.”
18. “And yet he kept sticking to her life like gum on the sole of her shoe, either on the Net or in real life. On the Net was OK. There he was no more than electrons and words. In real life, standing on her doorstep, he was still fucking attractive. And he knew her secrets just as she knew all of his.”
19. “As the situation developed, the futility of attempting suicide in the middle of a hospital became apparent.”
20. “If love is liking someone an awful lot, then I suppose I’m in love with several people.”
21. “But if you want to win, you’re going to have to fight.”
22. “Then she made up her mind.It was absurd to pretend that he did not exist.It no longer hurt her to see him. She opened the door wide and let him into her life again.”
23. “He knows that I have a photographic memory … and that I’m a hacker.”
24. “History is reticent about women who were common soldiers, who bore arms, belonged to regiments, and took part in battles on the same terms as men, though hardly a war has been waged without women soldiers in the ranks.”
25. “You know what? I think you ought to recruit her for the Section.”
26. “It was this simple. Some had it. Others would always falter when it came to the crunch.”
27. “Been there, done that, got the T-shirt.”
