“Never underestimate the importance of the beginning. Of anything. The beginning has the seeds of everything else to come.”

“All dreams can be a source of light...but some are especially radiant. They linger and continue to shine with all they have to reveal.”

“Never underestimate yourself”

“Everything that comes by you has your name on it.”

“Oh.” Packard steps back. “I didn’t come in here forthis.”“I didn’t either.”There’s this silence where it seems like one of usought to utter a sentence that begins with the word yet.”

“The unexpected thing, the miraculous thing, is when a car that's been shattered in a crash, that's been left in the rain to rust for years at a time, can be coaxed to growl to a start and slowly begin rolling down the hill.”

“That's the fundamental flaw in the illusion that writers like to maintain, the idea that we can craft anything approaching the truth. No matter how richly we imagine, no matter how vividly we set the scene, we never come close to the unambiguous realness of the moment itself.”