The presence of danger has a way of making you feel fully awake.

...his love was too much for him, he felt paralyzed, he wanted to sleep inside her lungs and breathe her blood and be smothered.

A lie, sometimes, can be truer than the truth, which is why fiction gets written.

They carried the sky. The whole atmosphere, they carried it, the humidity, the monsoons, the stink of fungus and decay, all of it, they carried gravity.

When your afraid,reallyafraid, you see things you never saw before, you pay attention to the world.

Inside I feel much like a 12-year-old or a 17-year-old who knows big words.

I survived, but it's not a happy ending.