Do you know why I stopped being Delight, my brother? I do. There are things not in your book. There are paths outside this garden.

In the case of 'Ocean at the End of the Lane,' it's a book about helplessness. It's a book about family, it's a book about being 7 in a world of people who are bigger than you, and more dangerous, and stepping into territory that you don't entirely understand.

Being a writer of fiction isn't like being a compulsive liar, honestly.

You see with your eyes. This means you can be misled by charm, by outward appearance. By webs of glamour, by surface pretences. I do not see with my eyes. I see good and I see evil. Nothing else.

And there never was an apple, in Adam's opinion, that wasn't worth the trouble you got into for eating it.

Libraries are our friends.

He had kissed her good night that night, and she had tasted like strawberry daiquiris, and he had never wanted to kiss anyone else again.