Never use five words if you can get away with one, eh? I've known dead men talk more than you do.

He's out here, somewhere, and he wants you dead,' she said. 'Him as killed your family. Us in the graveyard, we wants you to stay alive. We wants you to surprise us and disappoint us and impress us and amaze us. Come home, Bod.

If you are pointing out one of the things a story is about, then you are very probably right; if you are pointing out the only thing a story is about you are very probably wrong - even if you're the author.

When you dream, sometimes you remember. When you wake, you always forget.

Her other mother smiled brightly and the hair on her head drifted like plants under the sea.

I believe that anyone who claims to know what's going on will lie about the little things too.

The sky had never seemed so sky; the world had never seemed so world.