“Nobody quite knew what to make of the moon any more.”

“Nobody knew how to be what they were right. ”

“They wouldn't be so cocky if they knew what me and the moon have going.”

“But I never just quite liked that ryhme.''Why not, child?''Because it seems to say one's as good as another, or two new ones are better than one that's lost. . . . Somehow, when once you've looked into anybody's eyes, right deep down into them, I mean, nobody will do for that one any more. Nobody, ever so beautiful or so good, will make up for that one going out of sight.”

“Nobody knew what it was like to be torn between what it meant to be human and what it meant to be Pack better than me.”

“I thought to myself, 'why not write a bestseller?' In the first place, more people buy them and more people read them. You make more money and it doesn’t take any more time to write a bestseller than it does to write a book nobody buys.”