Lying in the bed that had once held two, Lisey thought alone never felt more lonely than when you woke up and discovered you still had the house to yourself. That you and the mice in the walls were the only ones still breathing.

Money can't buy off the lightning.

...women are better at keeping secrets, but men are more comfortable with them.

In polite society, we call our obsessions hobbies.

Life's simplest answers are often the easiest to overlook.

Once I fell in love with books, I fell in love completely.

I don't take notes; I don't outline, I don't do anything like that. I just flail away at the goddamn thing. I'm a salami writer. I try to write good salami, but salami is salami. You can't sell it as caviar.