She maintained a careful balance by her window, never allowing the men to come too close, never allowing them to stray too far.

If the thrill of hunting were in the hunt, or even in the marksmanship, a camera would do just as well.

You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.

Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.

The sky slowly pulled up its blue dress to reveal night.

The more you love someone, he came to think, the harder it is to tell them. It surprised him that strangers didn't stop each other on the street to say I love you.

His voice was handsome and broken, like a cobblestone street.

To feel alone is to be alone.

Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us.

When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.

It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us...on the inside, looking out.

They lived off each other's hypocrisy, fuelling a worthless market of trash.

Introspective reflections that might otherwise be liable to stall are helped along by the flow of the landscape...

Hate is like zero because true love is not divisible by hate.

Struggles are inevitable, just as much as pain.

As you get older it is harder to have heroes but it is sort of necessary.

You will enrich your life immeasurably if you approach it with a sense of wonder and discovery, and always challenge yourself to try new things.

I liked Augustus Waters. I really, really really liked him. I liked the way his story ended with someone else. I liked his voice. I liked that he took existentially-fraught free throws.

I woke up once in the middle of the night, and Buckminster's paws were on my eyelids. He must have been feeling my nightmares.

I enter the world called real as one enters a mist.

Two lovely berries moulded on one stem; So, with two seeming bodies, but one heart.