I hated hurting him. Most of the time, I could forget about it, but the inexorable truth is this: They might be glad to have me around, but I was the alpha and the omega of my parents' suffering.

I believe in hope, in what is something called ”radical hope.” I believe there is hope for all of us, even amid the suffering. And that’s why I write fiction, probaby. It’s my attempt to keep that fragile strand of radical hope, to buld a fire in the darkness.r

I never liked writing concluding paragraphs to papers - where you repeat what you've already said with phrases like 'In summation', and 'To conclude'.

She was nothing but good and I was nothing but bad, but then she died, and I didn't.

I didn't even know what the feeling was, really, just that there was a lot of it.

Videogame players essentially choose whether to win the game or to die heroically. There's a certain glory in both.

We are as indestructible as we believe ourselves to be.