“If wishes were free, pigs would fly.”

“If my mother were a bumper sticker, she would read THAT'S NOT APPROPRIATE. Taylor's mom would read WHY THE F*** NOT?”

“They would ask people to dosomething that is wrong? I thought angels were...” She stumbled, trying tothink of a word to describe her preconceived notion. “Angelic," Jaycie Lerner”

“It is the storyteller's prerogative to try to write, every now and then, the ending she might wish for. Even if it exists only on the white page.”

“They were slowing down. The noise of the rope as they reached the full extent of the jump sounded like the ricochet crack of the sail on a tall ship. And now they were accelerating again, up, up and suddenly they were hanging suspended: weightless in space. No up or down. The feeling of disorientation absolute.”

“Well, you're not [fat]. You have, like, the ideal balance of fat and muscle. ...If I were a cannibal, I'd eat you.”

“He tries not to think about The Core...but he couldn't deny it...they were all becoming something else entirely. Darwin's Children”