My life is a reading list.

There is no straightforward negotiation with a four year old.

It was a sound like someone trying not to make a sound.

No one but me ever put a hand on me to feel that baby. No one wanted to put his ear against it and listen...You shouldn't have a baby if there's no one who wants to feel it kick or listen to it move.

He wished he could arrange a maiming as a kind of moral lesson

The ability to see the future can be a burden, and the younger you are and the more isolated you feel, maybe the more of a burden it is.

I've always been a fan of the 19th century novel, of the novel that is plotted, character-driven, and where the passage of time is almost as central to the novel as a major minor character, the passage of time and its effect on the characters in the story.