“Murder’s the taking of one man’s life by another - war’s the other way around.”

“Seemed she should learn to smile when she was unhappy, to stop laughing, to speak up, to never speak to strangers, to share guilt for the acts of strangers, that strangers made the laws of the land, that the laws of the land valued things over life, that life ended if a stranger decided it, to be where she could be found, to feel one thing and do another. How could she hang so many contradictions in one skull”

“Fractal litigation, whereby the flapping of a butterfly’s wings on one side of the world resulted in a massive compensation claim on the other.”

“I knew books could see people around them, they ground their tiny teeth, tried to rattle like windows, stories to tell.”

“A society will manufacture an image of progress and locate it in the direction it wishes to take us.”

“The best way of getting into something is to think of it as mischief.”

“There’s no such thing as a normal angel. It’s never done that way.”