Time’s a goon, right? You gonna let that goon push you around?” Scotty shook his head. “The goon won.

I think the one thing that's changed over time is that I've come to realise, as a fiction writer, the fact that I don't think it will work out, doesn't mean that it actually won't.

I was a stepchild in two different families. The hardest thing about being a stepchild is you know that in some way everything would be easier if you didnt exist.

She'd risked everything, and here was the result: the raw, warped core of her life.

And Alex understood that Scotty Hausmann did not exist. He was a word casing in human form: a shell whose essence has vanished.

Everybody sounds stoned, because they're e-mailing people the whole time they're talking to you.

Sure, everything is ending," Jules said, "but not yet.