“Real lives have no end. Real books have no end.”
“Real love stories never have endings.”
“... my aim in writing The Watch That Ends the Night was not to present history. My aim was to present humanity. The people represented in this book lived and breathed and loved. They were as real as you or me. They could have been any one of us.”
“Mom, why couldn't my story, my real life story have a happy ending - like in the books?""No true love story has a happy ending; one always must die and leave the other. So there's never a totally happy ending.”
“I've been an idiot to think that real life could have a happy ending”
“Once upon a time there lived a real bad bitch. The fuckin' end.”