I like being mistaken for someone useful.

Grief moves us like love. Grief is love, I suppose. Love as a backwards glance.

Love is not a good thing, I've decided. It just makes you afraid you'll lose what you love, and then, because your fear makes a space for that to happen, it does. What's the point?

Every story is a story about death. But perhaps, if we are lucky, our story about death is also a story about love.

It's easy to feel equal to wanting. It's rare to feel equal to having.

Who? Mr. Dalton has his hand firmly on Grace's elbow, as though she can't manoeuvre herself through the blockade of tables and chairs.She could fly right through you, thinks Jack.

Dark is just light turned inside out, thinks Maddy. Why be afraid of that?

In the end, I will have to make a choice about how to tell my story....There has to be a moment of going forward, when all the possibilities are left behind.

With her right index finger she slowly spells words on Grace's skin.Don't let me go crazy.The moon is pale and vast. The stars so sharp they almost hurt.

The moon's a crazy sweetheart.

It is better to be creative than curious.

To spend time observing, without drawing, thinking, without drawing, or feeling, without drawing, is the misfortune of nonartists.

My brothers and sisters all sang, too, and they all have good voices.

He (God) loves what I shall be.

What's nurtured slowly grows well.

They don't think it be like it is, but it do.

Fiction offers escape but it also interrogates the world we live in, whether the past, present or future.

I never wanted to be a professional artist; I think that's limiting.

Zidane is the master. Over the past 10 years, there's been no-one like him, he has been the best player in the world.