“ For there to be compassion from people, they first must suffer”

“She batted thoseeyelashes at me so hard I thought I felt a breeze.”

“There must be some Tommy Hilfiger event horizon, beyond which it is impossible to be more derivative, more removed from the source, more devoid of soul.”

“and I wonder if Beethoven held his breaththe first time his fingers touched the keysthe same way a soldier holds his breaththe first time his finger clicks the trigger.We all have different reasons for forgetting to breathe.”

“Reading, his therapist had suggested, had likely been his first drug.”

“You never learn the first time. You always have to get hit twice before you see it coming.” He was seeing now what he’d seen that first night at Pure. A bright shiny light he wanted to catch in his hands and hold forever. If she let him.”

“The two things I enjoy the most about writing are the first page of a book and the last. What's in between is very hard work.”