“Books are more real when you read them outside.”

“Write the book you've always wanted to read, but can't find on the shelf.”

“Then I picked my book back up again and stroked her hair and read to the soundtrack of her breaths.”

“Do you know how some people can do anything?”“What do you mean?”“I mean, you tell them to write a tune, they give you a symphony right there. You tell them to write a book, they write you a novel in a day. You tell them to move a spoon without touching it, they move it. If they want something, they make it happen. Miracles, almost.”

“Are you sure you want to go out with someone with that kind of history? ...He could have a psychotic break. I read that people get those when they're twenty-eight.”

“I couldn't imagine anyone ever reading a book enough to make it look like that. It looked like it had been driven over by a school bus after someone had taken a bath with it.”

“Okay, outside," the clerk said. "Conversation outside. Bye! Have a nice night!”