"I believe you," she whispers after a moment. "Please find my mind."

What you see with your eyes is not necessarily real.

Even castles in the sky can do with a fresh coat of paint.

Everybody has some one thing they do not want to lose," began the man. "You included. And we are professionals at finding out that very thing. Humans by necessity must have a midway point between their desires and their pride. Just as all objects must have a center of gravity. This is something we can pinpoint. Only when it is gone do people realize it even existed.

Two-thirds of earth's surface is ocean, and all we can see with the naked eye is the surface.

I didn't start running because somebody asked me to become a runner. Just like I didn't become a novelist because someone asked me to. One day, out of the blue, I wanted to write a novel. And one day, out of the blue, I started to run-simply because I wanted to. I've always done whatever I felt like doing in life. People may try to stop me, and convince me I'm wrong, but I won't change.

She gave me this look – she might have been watching from a lifeboat as the ship went down. Or maybe it was the other way around.