The thoughts he put in her head. Someone should’ve arrested him for it.

...and when he thought about the way she laughed, as though she owned the air around her, his heart thundered inside his chest, a lonely rada.

If you really want a prize, or if you really want applause, you should try to write as many books as humanly possible.

I love the kookiness of our speech. Speech is like wonderful magic and poetry in itself. I've always had to crib a lot from what I've heard.

It's exactly at these moments, when all hope has vanished, that prayer has dominion.

Beli at thirteen believed in love like a seventy-year-old widow who's been abandoned by family, husband, children and fortune believes in God.

You were at the age where you could fall in love with a girl over an expression, over a gesture