Or -- and this she knew was a far more accurate way of looking at it -- the book was true and reality was lying.

Be careful what you wish for. You never know who will be listening.

She got on with her education. In her opinion, school kept on trying to interfere with it.

It was sad music. But it waved its sadness like a battle flag. It said the universe had done all it could, but you were still alive.

The fastest way to travel is to be there already.

In theory it was, around now, Literature. Susan hated Literature. She'd much prefer to read a good book.

We're on a mission from Glod.

The Captain of the Watch says if you're still in the City by sunrise he will personally have you buried alive.

The hippo of recollection stirred in the muddy waters of the mind.

I MAY HAVE ALLOWED MYSELF SOME FLICKER OF EMOTION IN THE RECENT PAST, said Death, BUT I CAN GIVE IT UP ANY TIME I LIKE.

In my experience, what every true artist wants, really wants, is to be paid.

We spent all those years talking about stuff we had in common, and the last few months noticing all the ways we were different and it broke both of our hearts.

I know it will not happen in one day. I also know that it is definitely going to happen one day.

That is one of the bitter curses of poverty

Perspective alone can make an experience positive or negative, but regardless of which you let it become, it can only have as much power over your outlook on life as you give it.

Our ability to connect with others is innate, wired into our nervous systems, and we need connection as much as we need physical nourishment.

Hey, Tiffany. If I have to walk - if I have to steal a horse - I'll be there

That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what was for him almost literal fact.

Oh you’re heist-drunk Kitty Kat. And you have been since the Henley.

all at once I saw that the sun was round! Since then I have been the happiest man on Earth!

When I got to the Mavericks people were all giving me advice - change this, change that - and one thing that I didn't do was fire anybody.