“Don't take a pretty book home just cuz it's pretty," Mom always said, "and a girl neither."Somewhere”

“He was looking backwards, and that was an entirely different thing. Looking backwards wasimportant, even when you were standing still. He had to see what was there. There was somethingback there, and even if everybody else didn't see it, he had to.”

“Teeth could befixed, the past couldn't be. He wondered if memories could be. He wanted to fix his memories.”

“They laughed together, because laughter in number is saferthan laughter alone.”

“A monster always has a vulnerability”

“As a rough rule, it seems that writers fall into two camps. There are those who delight in rousting the truth from its concealment amid pieties and convention. If they must strip-mine the world to expose its hypocrisy, they will do so, even if they leave a landscape barren of hope. Then there are those writers who prefer to remythologize life on earth, finding it rich with strange congruences and possibilities. ”

“Acceptance of death when it arrives is one thing, but to allow it to upstage the joys of living is ingratitude.”