We'd failed, maybe, but some mysteries aren't meant to be solved.

This fear bears no analogy to any fear I knew before. This is the basest of all possible emotions, the feeling that was with us before we existed, before this building existed, before the earth existed. This is the fear that made fish crawl out onto dry land and evolve lungs, the fear that teaches us to run, the fear that makes us bury our dead.

Books are seldom useful unless they are also beautiful.

Boys do not have the monopoly in Staring Business, after all.

Hank, when people call people nerds mostly what they're saying is,'You like stuff'.

but even if we survive the collapse of our sun, we will not survive forever.

I like to know the places I write about. I feel like it helps me ground the novel. My novels are 'realistic novels,' but they can also be fantastical, so it's nice to have a setting that grounds them a little bit.