Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.

I can't be you. You can't be me. You can imagine another well—but never quite perfectly, you know?

feeling - probably for the first time in my life - the fear and excitement of living in a place where you never know what's going to happen or when.

I hadn’t read a real series like that since I was a kid, and it was exciting to live again in an infinite fiction.

Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.

Omnis cellula e cellula," he said again. "All cells come from cells. Every cell is born of a previous cell, which was born of a previous cell. Life comes from life. Life begets life begets life begets life begets life.

Poetry is just so emo." he said. "Oh, the pain. The pain. It always rains. In my soul.