The dead are visible only in the terrible lidless eye of memory.

You say into my cracks and I saw into yours.

I realized that all my life, my values were based upon typical middle-class American values: hard work, doing good, living well, owning things, following the rules & being the best I can be... but God clearly says, "those are not MY values. I value justice, mercy & humility.

"I think forever is an incorrect concept," I answered. He smirked. "You're an incorrect concept." "I know. That's why I'm being taken out of the rotation".

Gratitude is the proper response for the absolute astonishment of getting to be alive, and aware, and an essential part of this crazy, sprawling story.

This is unbearable ... God. These books she'll never read. Her Life's Library.

I've read a lot of bad books. I used to review books for a living, and when you're a reviewer you read tons of terrible books.