We all miss you so much. It just never ends. It feels like we were all wounded in your battle, Caroline. I miss you. I love you.

The job of reading is to use stories as a way into seeing other people as we see ourselves

You know, like when you look in the mirror and the thing you see is not the thing as it really is.

I was born into Bolívar's labyrinth, and so I must believe in the hope of Rabelais' Great Perhaps.

It looked like an old painting, but real - everything achingly idyllic in the morning light - and I thought about how wonderfully strange it would be to live in a place where almost everything had been built by the dead.

I change my keyboard between every book. I usually shop around. I'm very passionate about the physical feel of pressing the keys. It's got to have the right springiness. I tend to find the built-in keys very unsatisfying, the keys are low-profile and don't really do anything - I want it to feel like I'm typing.

That deep, can-still-taste-her-in-my-mouth sleep.