We'll have freedom, love and health/When the grand red flag is flying, In the Workers' Commonwealth.

The mad sometimes drilled holes in their own heads to let the demons out. To relieve the pressure of thoughts they could no longer bear. Jude understood the impulse. Each beat of his heart was a fresh and staggering blow felt in the nerves behind his eyes and in his temples. Punishing evidence of life.

She breathed deeply of the scent of decaying fiction, disintegrating history, and forgotten verse, and she observed for the first time that a room full of books smelled like dessert: a sweet snack made of figs, vanilla, glue, and cleverness.

The blood of a redheaded woman is three degrees cooler than the blood of a normal woman. This has been established by medical studies.

I have nothing to say for myself, only that I have always tried to make this earth a little bit better

Fantasy was always only a reality waiting to be switched on.

Don't ever have children, Tyler, unless you're ready to be afraid everyday for the rest of your life.