...that's how memory works ... Things disappear without your permission, then come back again without your permission.

...when truths disappear, they leave behind blank spaces, and that is also dangerous.

There isn't a simple person anywhere in this world.

A consciousness was like a face you saw once and forever recognized.

When you're a monster, you are thanked and praised for not being a monster.

I’m suspicious of the notion of a single book that would benefit everyone to read.

It's not fair. It's not fair," she cried, knowing it was a child's argument but not caring, because being childish did not make it untrue.