That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.

If you're happy in a dream, does that count?

This was the trouble with families. Like invidious doctors, they knew just where it hurt.

Flat muscled and honey coloured. Sea secrets in his eyes. A silver raindrop in his ear.

When she listened to songs that she loved on the radio, something stirred inside her. A liquid ache spread under her skin, and she walked out of the world like a witch.

His gratitude widened his smile and bent his back.

He could do only one thing at a time. If he held her, he couldn't kiss her. If he kissed her, he couldn't see her. If he saw her, he couldn't feel her.

Heaven opened and the water hammered down, reviving the reluctant old well, greenmossing the pigless pigsty, carpet bombing still, tea-colored puddles the way memory bombs still, tea-colored minds.

Her collarbones like wings that spread from the base of her throat to the ends of her shoulders. A bird held down by skin.

To understand history, ' Chacko said, 'we have to go inside and listen to what they're saying. And look at the books and the pictures on the wall. And smell the smells.

How history negotiates its terms and collects its dues from those who break its laws.

The prospect of a certain loss brings the go system online.

Sometimes nothing is the best thing to say and often the best thing to do.

...please don’t throw any more rocks at the barrier keeping the demonic hordes of the void from pouring over the world.

The art of dressing is the art we all practice

power, after it has ceased from troubling, is the dominant passion in human nature.

Concepts become forces when they resist one another

The woman who died night after night and her dying was a long goodbye, a train that never left.

Brothers, what we do in life........echoes in eternity.

Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.

You might wanna rethink that, boy. 'Cause if I'm going to get sued for offensively touching you, I'm going to make it worth my while.