We didn't talk much. But we didn't need to.

I always had this idea that you should never give up a happy middle in the hopes of a happy ending, because there is no such thing as a happy ending. Do you know what I mean? There is so much to lose.

...And in freedom, most people find sin.

It's so easy to get stuck. You just get caught in being something, being special or cool or whatever, to the point where you don't even know why you need it; you just think you do.

Neither novels or their readers benefit from any attempts to divine whether any facts hide inside a story. Such efforts attack the very idea that made-up stories can matter, which is sort of the foundational assumption of our species.

He knew he couldn't tell stories, that he always included extraneous details & tangents that interested only him.

The only person I really wanted to talk to about Augustus Water's death with was Augustus Waters.