“She's realized the real problem with stories -- if you keep them going long enough, they always end in death.”

“All Bette's stories have happy endings. That's because she knows where to stop. She's realized the real problem with stories—if you keep them going long enough, they always end in death.”

“So," he asked. "How's death?""Hard," she said. "It just keeps going.”

“As sure as water's wet and days are long and a friend will always disappoint you in the end.”

“He wondered whether home was a thing that happened to a place after a while, or if it was something that you found in the end, if you simply walked and waited and willed it long enough.”

“Will eventually grow up and get a real job. Until then, will keep making things up and writing them down.”

“Stories are webs, interconnected strand to strand, and you follow each story to the center, because the center is the end. Each person is a strand of the story.”