“But that was the thing about metaphors, those tricky comparisons of dissimilar things. They weren't always tricky. Or dissimilar.”
“And that's the tricky thing about life, really, that the things we want most will kill us.”
“A novel is a tricky thing to map.”
“This was the tricky bit. The really tricky bit, trickiness cubed.”
“Truth was such a tricky thing when it came to children. When was it good medicine and when was it poison”
“Of all the unexpected things in contemporary literature, this is among the oddest: that kids have an inordinate appetite for very long, very tricky, very strange books about places that don’t exist.”