... people made the imaginary real all the time: taking the music they heard in their head and recording it, seeing a house in their imagination and building it. Fantasy was always only a reality waiting to be switched on.

Sooner or later a black car came for everyone.

Some things you didn't give away, no matter how much you owed.

Already, though, she understood the difference between being a child and being an adult. The difference is when someone says he can keep the bad things away, a child believes him.

The best way to get even with anyone is to put them in the rearview mirror on your way to something better.

Horror was rooted in sympathy . . . in understanding what it would be like to suffer the worst.

Taking a thing apart is always faster than putting something together. This is true of everything except marriage.