Friends don’t spy; true friendship is about privacy, too.

The things a man sees when he ain't got a gun.--Watson the Caretaker

There had never been a shortage of fools in the world

Terrifying. . . . A Dark Matter is populated with vivid, sympathetic characters, and driven by terrors both human and supernatural. It's the kind of book that's impossible to put down once it has been picked up. It kept me reading far into the night. Straub builds otherworldly terror without ever losing touch with his attractive cast of youngsters, who age beautifully. Put this one high on your list.

So do we pass the ghosts that haunt us later in our lives; they sit undramatically by the roadside like poor beggars, and we see them only from the corners of our eyes, if we see them at all. The idea that they have been waiting there for us rarely crosses our minds. Yet they do wait, and when we have passed, they gather up their bundles of memory and fall in behind, treading in our footsteps and catching up, little by little.

I believe that anyone using the phrase 'That's so cool' should have to stand in the corner.

I have to remind myself that some birds aren’t meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright.