“This was the Darker Life, where every truth was written backward.”

“The refrigerator whirred, the water dripped in the sink, and the raw seconds passed. This was the Darker Life, where every truth was written backward.”

“Or perhaps it was the voice of the Darker Girl.”

“He would write it for the reason he felt that all great literature, fiction and nonfiction, was written: truth comes out, in the end it always comes out. He would write it because he felt he had to.”

“Home is where you dance with others, and dancing is life.”

“Writers are often the worst judges of what they have written.”

“One of life's great truths is this: when one is about to be struck by a speeding six-hundred pound Coke machine, one need worry about little else.”