You must never believe everything they say about a person. Generally speaking, most of it will be lies, half-truths at best.

Alternate history fascinates me, as it fascinates all novelists, because 'What if?' is the big thing.

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.

(although anyone with half a brain must surely be mired in existential gloom all the time)

Why is everything an 'adventure' with you?" Sylvie said irritably to Izzie." "Because life is an adventure, of course." "I would say it was more of an endurance race," Sylvie said. "Or an obstacle course.

Sylvie's knowledge, like Izzie's, was random yet far-ranging, 'The sign that one has acquired one's learning from reading novels rather than an education.

The beginning is the word and the end is silence. And in between are all the stories.