“Use your imagination only on the future, never on the present or the past.”

“The key to fighting in the dark is no different: you had to perceive your opponent, sense him, and never use your imagination. The darkness inside your head is something your imagination fills with stories that have nothing to do with the real darkness around you.”

“. . . the only way to shake your ghosts was to find them . . .”

“Orphans are the only ones who get to choose their fathers, and they love them twice as much.”

“In my experience, ghosts are made up only of the living, people you know are out there but are forever out of range”

“The urge to create a fictional narrative is a mysterious one, and when an idea comes, the writer's sense of what a story wants to be is only vaguely visible through the penumbra of inspiration.”

“You can't leave me. I'm your captive," she said. "What good's a captive without her captor?”