People pursue things. As soon as they have them they run away from them.

He shivered. His coat was thin, and it was obvious he would not get his kiss, which he found puzzling. The manly heroes of the penny dreadfuls and shilling novels never had these problems getting kissed.

You need more than a beginning if you're going to start a book. If all you have is a beginning, then once you've written that beginning, you have nowhere to go.

You get on with your own life. Lettie gave it to you. You just have to grow up and try and be worth it.

People populate the darkness; with ghosts, with gods, with electrons, with tales.

We save our lives in such unlikely ways.

Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called.