“I should be sorry if I only entertained them. I wished to make them better.”

“I should be sorry if I have only succeeded in entertaining them; I wished to make them better.”

“Miserable people love to make other people miserable. I don't hate them, I just feel sorry for them.”

“This is a bad story.”“Sorry. I’m really sorry. I shouldn’t have told you.”“No, you should,” I say.“But—”“I don’t want there to be bad stories and me not know them.”

“I deeply wished I could make the stars all come down and breathe them; disappear in them”

“Hello, darling. Sorry about that. Sorry about the bony elbows, sorry we lived here, sorry about the scene at the bottom of the stairwell and how I ruined everything by saying it out loud. Especially that, but I should have known. You see, I take the parts that I remember and stitch them back together to make a creature that will do what I say or love me back.”