To feel alone is to be alone.

Sometimes you have to put your fears in order.

You need to have a reader's sympathy in order to accomplish anything. It's like at a reading, I find it's better to read something funny than to read something tragic. It just goes over better because you have a finite amount of time with somebody. Of course, in a book, you have a lot of time. But you still do want to make a certain impression right when you begin.

It was getting hard to keep all the things I didn't know inside me.

You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.

They do not desire anything more than everything they have known.

We could imagine all sorts of universes unlike this one, but this is the one that happened.