You think you're safe. Until you see a picture like that. And then you know you'll always be a slave to the present because the present is more powerful than the past, no matter how long ago the present happened.

The world should not be organized to require heroines, and when one is required but fails to appear, we should not judge.

It's important to attend funerals. It is important to view the body, they say, and to see it committed to earth or fire because unless you do that, the loved one dies for you again and again.

Depression is anger slowed down; panic is grief speeded up.

Writing is a hellish task, best snuck up on, whacked on the head, robbed and left for dead.

Memory plays tricks. Memory is another word for story, and nothing is more unreliable.

The thief you must fear the most is not the one who steals mere things.