My family shouldn't have to put up with me. They're good people, solid, happy. Sometimes when I'm with them I think I'm on television.

Some days I woke up and got out of bed and brushed my teeth like any normal human being; some days I woke up and laid in bed and looked at the ceiling and wondered what the hell the point was of getting out of bed and brushing my teeth like any normal human being.

That made me happy. That was my Anchor.

Sometimes when you open a book, time stops.

Misfortune is no excuse for cruelty.

I've started to think it must just be chemistry, in which case we're looking for the Shift and we haven't found it yet.

I had fooled myself into thinking that I was something important to the rest of the world.