Quotes
Everybody wanted to be the hero of their own story. Nobody wanted to be comic relief.
p. 165
There was nothing—in Eliot’s admittedly limited experience—more tedious than virtue.
p. 48
“You’re an interesting case,” she said.
There is really no end to life’s little humiliations, Quentin reflected.
p. 92
His whole personality was like an elaborate joke that he never stopped telling.
p. 107
“I have a hard time believing that the history of the universe is being written by a talking rabbit,” Eliot said. “Though that would explain a lot.”
p. 20
Quentin’s conversations with his parents were so circular and self-defeating, they sounded like experimental theater.
p. 169
“Age,” Quentin heard him mutter. “It’s wasted on the young. Just like youth.”
p. 162
“If there’s a bright side to the galaxy,” Peter said, more or less aimlessly, “we’re on the planet that’s farthest from it.”
p. 49
All worked excellently, until fighting began.
p. 339
Miranda Sawyer had a heart, of course, but she had never used it for any other purpose than the pumping and circulating of blood.”
He was firmly convinced of his uniqueness in the universe and his general superiority to it, although he was occasionally bothered by the universe’s lack of appreciation.
p. 32
You can’t be a nonconformist if you don’t wear the proper uniform.
p. 7
