Life isn't nearly as stable as we want it to be.

Fiction allows for moral questioning, but through the back door. Personally, I like books that make you think - books you're still wondering about three days after you finish them; books you hand to a friend and say "Read this, so we can talk about it."

I imagined what it would be like to hold a butterfly in your hands something bejeweled and treasured and to know that despite your devotion it was dying by degrees.

Sometimes Chris wished he could sneak a peek at the back of the book, so to speak, and see how it was all going to turn out, so that he wouldn't have to bother going through the motions.

Listen,” she said. “I may not be what you want right now, but I’m all you’ve got.

That's the crazy thing about lies. You start to fall for them, yourself.

I think there are two different oceans - the one that plays with you in the summer, and the one that gets so mad in the winter.