... and because it was a drunken perception, it was perfect, entire, and lasted about half a second.

He comes to this other world and he has to reinvent himself. Again, it felt natural, even though I'd been working really hard trying to come up with something.

As long as she was falling in love with me, I might as well start making her promises I didn't intend to keep.

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

Nothing that had ever happened to him, not the shooting of Oyster, or the piteous muttering expiration of John Wesley Shannenhouse, or the death of his father, or internment of his mother and grandfather, not even the drowning of his beloved brother, had ever broken his heart quite as terribly as the realization, when he was halfway to the rimed zinc hatch of the German station, that he was hauling a corpse behind him

Do what you gotta do and stay fly

A father is a man who fails every day.