I'm going to play until the end of this life. - Gabrielle Zevin

Rosie crosses her arm. "That's one of those things you say to sound smart, right?" she says. "But, really, you're trying to make someone else feel stupid.

Why'd you give him all that stuff after he tried to rob me?"

"Because he was less fortunate than us, Natty. And Daddy always said that we have to be mindful of those who are less fortunate."

"But Daddy killed people, didn't he?"

"Yes," I admitted. "Daddy was complex.

If something is good and universally acknowledged to be so, this is not reason enough to dislike it.