I've stayed in houses that were in the country, and in England, but I'm still not sure that I've stayed in an English country house.

Being brave was easy when you would rather die than give up.

Don't take anyone's writing advice too seriously.

That was the thing about the world: it wasn't that things were harder than you thought they were going to be, it was that they were hard in ways that you didn't expect.

He wasn't surprised. He was used to this anticlimactic feeling, where by the time you've done all the work to get something you don't even want it anymore.

Do you promise to hate my parents as much as I do?" "Oh, absolutely," Quentin said. "Maybe even more.

I guess I was raised in a household with a lot of reverence for the physical sanctity of books. You didn't destroy books.