‎It is better to pursue a hopeless hope than to give in to black despair.

Impatience is not the least of your faults, Malik, it is a kind of greed and someday it may see you undone.

The short story form allows evocation, suggestion, implication. Its potency often lies in what it does not say.

Never trust a mirror,' his mother had told him. 'They never tell the truth unless you make them.

Don't you understand that wanting does not belong here, because that is what wounds, and there is never an end to it.

If she is afraid of mirrors she is afraid of herself.

She's forgetting,' Ellen said to Jack, plumping herself down on a chair. 'All of her life is leaking out of her. Soon there will be nothing left.