“I don't think they're terrible parents. They love us. I think they're negligent parents. That's not the same thing.”

“See you in the fall.”

“Wolves are social. They need their pack.”

“Eating good food is my favourite thing in the whole world. Nothing is more blissful.”

“I can critique the bad; I can take the good, and I can add whatever I want.”

“If you are causing trouble, look for allies, always.”

“For even though the rest of the city--no, the rest of the country--starved and searched fruitlessly for work and slept in a humpy in the park, society's finest could still squander their money however they saw fit.The unemployed, they would say, were lazy. If they worked harder, they'd do as well as Mr. Harry Moneypants was doing, who'd earned his vast fortune by having the foresightedness of selecting rich parents, who had, in their time, also cleverly selected rich parents.”

“She promised to be good. She wasn't.”

“Rosa!" Sally says. "The police are here to help you, not to hear a lecture on comparative murder rates.”

“I don't think they're terrible parents. They love us. I think they're negligent parents. That's not the same thing.”

“Killing things shouldn't make you happy, Rosa. That's why they're worried.”