Adults should not weep, I knew. They did not have mothers who would comfort them.

Sometimes we can choose the paths we follow. Sometimes our choices are made for us. And sometimes we have no choice at all.

Continuity isn't actually something that I ever worry about. You use it where you need to, and you don't use it where you don't need to.

Small children believe themselves to be gods, or some of them do, and they can only be satisfied when the rest of the world goes along with their way of seeing things.

I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing.

Stories are made up by people who make them up. If they work, they get retold. There's the magic of it.

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