It is always so simple, and so complicating, to accept an apology.

I said, “I need to hear something that’s going to save my life.” Re: Selecting songs from a jukebox.

It is always so simple, and so complicating, to accept an apology.

Dr. Roboy, in Litvak's measured view, had a vice common to believers: He was all strategy and no tactics. He was prone to move for the sake of moving, too focused on the goal to bother with the intervening sequence.

And then the man reminded Max, with a serious but suave and practiced air, that freedom was a debt that could be repaid only by purchasing the freedom of others.

A true storyteller is really good at writing himself into a corner and then finding a way out of that corner

The things I keep going back to, rereading, maybe they say more about me as a reader than about the books. Love in the Time of Cholera, Pale Fire.