All women are many women! I'm afraid you've never known very much about women. - Gabrielle Zevin

A truly magnificent thing about the way the brain was coded, Sam thought, was that it could say "Excuse me" while meaning "Screw you." Unless they were unreliable or clearly established as lunatics or scoundrels, characters in novels, movies, and games were meant to be taken at face value — the totality of what they did or what they said. But people — the ordinary, the decent and basically honest — couldn't get through the day without that one indispensable bit of programming that allowed you to say one thing and mean, feel, even do, another.

It was never worth worrying about someone you didn't love. And it wasn't love if you didn't worry.

For the record, everything new is not worse than everything old.