A fundamentalist is someone who wants to substitute what he believes for what you believe," Max said. "And someone who thinks he knows the will of God better than anyone else.

I should probably start with the blood.

But things don't just fall apart. People break them.

The only thing more dangerous than a willingness to ignore the Law is an ability to change it.

Im not one of those authors who claims to hear voices in my head or let the characters speak through me, whatever that might mean.

I longed to return to that bloody riverbank, to throw myself in the path of the final arrow, to die ignorant, and so, in love. Better to be killed by an arrow than by the words of the one I most trusted.

Now I existed solely thanks to the quantum paradox, my brain a collection of qubits in quantum superposition, encoding truths and memories, imagination and irrationality in opposing, contradictory states that existed and didn't exist, all at the same time.