How about I call you when I finish this?” “But you don’t even have my phone number,” he said. “I strongly suspect you wrote it in the book.” He broke out into that goofy smile. “A nd you say we don’t know each other.

And, since they are theater people, they are all talking. All of them. Simultaneously. They do not need to be heard; they only need to be speaking.

And then it was the kind of dark your eyes never adjust to.

As a child I was an inveterate liar. As opposed to now, I am a Novelist.

It always shocked me when I realized that I wasn’t the only person in the world who thought and felt such strange and awful things.

I was thinking about this girl you love so much," she said, "And this place I love so much. And how that happens. How you can just fall into it.

You cannot invent an algorithm that is as good at recommending books as a good bookseller, and that's the secret weapon of the bookstore - is that no algorithm will ever understand readers the way that other readers can understand readers.