When anything can happen, everything matters.

There's a taste in the air, sweet and vaguely antiseptic, that reminds him of his teenage years in these streets, and of a general state of longing, a hunger for life to begin that from this distance seems like happiness.

When people have supernatural beliefs I think they should be respected but there is no reason why they need to impose them on others.

From this new and intimate perspective, she learned a simple, obvious thing she had always known, and everyone knew; that a person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn, not easily mended.

come back, come back to me

We go on our hands and knees and crawl our way towards the truth

How can a novelist achieve atonement when, with her absolute power of deciding outcomes, she is also God?