Her nudity is her armor. It blinded the drooling fools. They couldn't see anything else while they saw her body.

How can one love the light and live in darkness?

Evil is simple and empty. Evil has no mysterious depths. We stare into a dark hole and fill it with our fears, but it is only a hole.

What people value in their books—and thus what they count as literature—really tells you more about them than it does about the book.

...if reality is hard and flat and unjust, then it's better to adjust to what really is than to complain that it isn't what you wish. That was what made me lose faith..... But having lost it, soon I doubted my lack of faith. There were niggling hints of meaning everywhere.

Life is meaningless, when we take a life we take nothing of value.

..because the only kind of love I have to offer is stupid and blind and so deep and powerful that I feel like I'm cracking just to hold it in.