“I get a little poetic sometimes. The moonlight does that to me.”
“What mattered to Abu was the music of the sentence. 'A shadow does not belong to the object that casts it.' To Abu, it was a little poem. And in general, it was the poetics, the music of things that tossed his confetti.”
“To the delight of the poetic little gutter boys in the little grey streets.”
“Now that’s true poetic irony. I rush into battle to defend the fair name of Rose Larkin, and what does she do but fetch Robert to stop me.”
“I am a little pencil in God's hands. He does the thinking. He does the writing. He does everything and sometimes it is really hard because it is a broken pencil and He has to sharpen it a little more.”
“I fight everyday to not let the past overtake me. Sometimes I win, sometimes it does.”