Are you sure you want to go out with someone with that kind of history? ...He could have a psychotic break. I read that people get those when they're twenty-eight.

There are too many people on horseback today trying to prove themselves, trying to prepare, trying to get faster. They haven't discovered yet that it's not the fastest who make it to race day. You only have to be the fastest of those who are left.

Creative" "Dangerously emo.

Maura had decided sometime before Blue's birth that it was barbaric to order children about, and so Blue had grown up surrounded by imperative question marks.

I wanted a library like this...[] A cave of words that I'd made myself.

Taking risks is not being suicidal. Otherwise, skydivers need serious help.

Sam: “I—it’s—I’m not an animal.