“The whole scene had an imaginary quality to it. I knew that it was real, but at the same time it was better than reality, more nearly a projection of what I wanted from reality than anything I had experienced before.”
“I made it clear to the world that what Jade and I had found in each other was more real than any other world, more real than time, more real than death, more real, even, than she and I.”
“I knew what I possessed was exactly what I wanted, that I desired no more than what I had.”
“Reality is more frightening than anything that I could ever hope to write!”
“I knew what it was like to be poor, and that once you had become rich, anything was better than being poor again.”
“I put away that stuffed God I had all stitched up with my human understandings and fears. God is less formulaic and quantifiable as he once used to be, but experiencing the reality of his love is infinitely better than dragging that other one around.”