People are only mean when they are threatened.

What is it about childhood that never lets you go, even when you're so wrecked it's hard to believe you ever were a child?

She was like a wound beneath an old bandage, and he had grown more used to the bandage.

I traded lots of dreams for a bigger paycheck, and I never even realized I was doing it.

Silence was his escape, but silence is rarely a refuge.

You can't substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship

I lived," Dor said, "but I was not alive.