She doesn't believe in dogs," Bridget said. "Dogs are hardly an article of faith," Sylvie said.

She was a terrible mother, there was no doubt about it, but she didn't even have the strength to feel guilty.

Probably not needing to be published would give me more time to think about a book.

Whatever happens to you, embrace it, the good and the bad equally. Death is just one more thing to be embraced.

I am mad, I think. I am mad therefore I think. I am mad therefore I think I am.

It wasn't that [he] believed in religion, or a God, or an afterlife. He just knew it was impossible to feel this much love and for it to end.

Time was a thief, he stole your life away from you and the only way you could get it back was to outwit him and snatch it right back.