One battle doesn't make a campagin, but critics treat one book, good or bad, like a whole war.

And this was the price you paid for sleeping together.

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

The things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist.

To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years.

Perhaps I should not have been a fisherman, he thought. But that was the thing that I was born for.

I do not think I had ever seen a nastier-looking man. Under the black hat, when I had first seen them, the eyes had been those of an unsuccessful rapist.