The young accept the extraordinary as normal because they do not compare their lives with those of others when everyone is like them.

The young accept the extraordinary as normal because they do not compare their lives with those of others when everyone is like them.

Silence was not the absence of sound but was itself a sound that could be loud or soft, soothing or disturbing, complex or simple.

...part of the mind's job was to cast doubt on what the heart knew to be true, and the heart, because it had no words, often lost the argument

Faith is not something that one has; faith is something that one practices at the very moment in your life when you really don't believe anything, and you're in the worst kind of despair.

Goodness was not a trait you acquired; it was a value you practiced when you were on the verge of doing evil.

Books, and especially fiction, do not proceed from ideas. They are born from feelings