“I'm having a magenta day. Not just red, but magenta!”

“The redness was going out of the light now, the remains of the day were a fading pink, the color of wild roses.”

“Wendy? Darling? Light, of my life. I'm not gonna hurt ya. I'm just going to bash your brains in.”

“We don't know the days that will change our lives. Probably just as well.”

“When you write a book, you spend day after day scanning and identifying the trees. When you’re done, you have to step back and look at the forest.”

“I stroked a big red A on top of his paper. Looked at it for a moment or two, then added a big red +. Because it was good, and because his pain had evoked an emotional reaction in me, his reader. And isn’t that what A+ writing is supposed to do? Evoke a response?”

“Corey Bryant sank into a great forgetful river, and that river was time, and its waters were red.”