There is no cosmic scale on which you can weigh your actions; you learn too late what choices ruin the fragile balance.

You can be strapped to the most stable chair and still feel the world give way beneath you.

The real power of a wolf isn't in its fearsome jaws, which can clench with fifteen hundred pounds of pressure per square inch. The real power of a wolf is having that strength, and knowing when not to use it.

It takes two people to make a lie work: the person who tells it, and the one who believes it.

As a child, what I was missing was so much bigger to me than what I had. My mother-mythic, imaginary-was a deity and a superhero and a comfort all at once. If only I'd had her, surely, she would have been the answer to every problem; if only I'd had her , she would have been the cure for everything that ever had gone wrong in my life.

The best relationships were the ones where both sides went out of their way to make sure the other wasn't disappointed.

Dark matter has a gravitation effect on other objects. You can't see it, you can't feel it, but you can watch something being pulled in its direction.