I will love you forever, he thought. I am lying, he thought, and this time he was right

Every person is defined by the communities she belongs to.

He's not a killer. He just wins... Thoroughly

I've got a pretty good idea what children are, and we're not children. Children can lose sometimes, and nobody cares.

I've had your tears with mine, and you've had mine with yours. I think that's more intimate even than a kiss.

I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth: the mythic truth about human nature in general, the particular truth about those life-communities that define our own identity, and the most specific truth of all: our own self-story. Fiction, because it is not about someone who lived in the real world, always has the possibility of being about oneself. --From the Introduction

The only way to retrieve a secret,once known, is to replace it with a lie.