I had just come to accept that my life would be ordinary when extraordinary things began to happen.

Do you ever find yourself climbing into an open grave during a bombing raid and wish you'd just stayed in bed?

If you are a conscious human being who has opinions about the world, then you will unconsciously put your own perspective into the book.

I just like that balance of the real and the fantastical because as a reader and consumer of stories and fantasy, I always want to feel like I can find that world.

Our debt was too great and the words thank you too small.

I liked this idea: that peculiarness wasn't a deficiency, but an abundance; that it wasn't we who lacked something normals had, but they who lacked peculiarness. That we were more, not less.

There was a girl who could fly, a boy who had bees living inside him, a brother and sister who could lift boulders over their heads.