The girl's lover was gone, but his shadow was still there.

This is our world now, and those ancient people are dead.

This would be...a book that would be a trapdoor down into some place dark. A place only you could go, alone, when you opened the cover. Because only books have that power.

All human beings search for either reasons to be good, or excuses to be bad.

Brandy is so attractive you could chop her head off and put it on blue velvet in the window at Tiffany's and somebody would buy it for a million dollars.

There's an opposite to déjà vu. They call it jamais vu. It's when you meet the same people or visit places, again and again, but each time is the first. Everybody is always a stranger. Nothing is ever familiar.

Today is just one of those days the sun comes out to really humiliate you.