Something invisible snapped inside her.

Tonight, darling, we are going to right a lot of wrongs.

It is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistently misimagined.

I think it's crazy, crazy that book tours lose so much money. They shouldn't. Book tours should be part of what keeps independent bookstores vibrant and profitable.

I'm a grenade and at some point I'm going to blow up and I would like to minimize the casualties, okay?

In the first century CE, Roman authorities punished St. Apollonia by crushing her teeth one by one with pliers. Colin often thought about this in relationship to the monotony of dumping: we have thirty-two teeth. After a while, having each tooth individually destroyed probably gets repetitive, even dull. But it never stops hurting.

All those paper people living in their paper houses, burning the future to stay warm.