I wake up very early in the morning. I like to start in the dark, and I never work at night, because my brain is evaporated by 4 p.m.

Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.

What did dead mean, Ray wondered. It meant lost, it meant frozen, it meant gone.

How to Commit the Perfect Murder" was an old game in heaven. I always chose the icicle: the weapon melts away.

Between a man and a woman there was always one person who was stronger than the other one. That doesn’t mean the weaker one doesn’t love the stronger.

As if in the other side of his kiss there could ve a new life

But I know I would not go out. I had taken this time to fall in love instead — in love with the sort of helplessness I had not felt in death — the helplessness of being alive, the dark bright pity of being human — feeling as you went, groping in corners and opening your arms to light - all of it part of navigating the unknown.