“Growing up, it seemed, was just a series of disenchantments. First you find out there's no Santa Claus; then you find out there's no such thing as happily-ever-after.”
“Happiness, you see, its just an illusion of Fate, a heavenly sleight of hand designed to make you believe in fairy tales. But there's no happily ever after. You'll only find happy endings in books. Some books.”
“there's no such thing as a fuck cure. a fuck cure is like the adult version of santa claus”
“All writing is that structure of revelation. There's something you want to find out. If you know everything up front in the beginning, you really don't need to read further if there's nothing else to find out.”
“Find someone to push him ever sunward. There's always something you're not supposed to see but it is a condition of growing up that you will see it.”
“No one ever does live happily ever after, but we leave the children to find that out for themselves.”