"Not all the magic of earth is benevolent."
- Alden Bell
"The abundance of small things, it'll bury you."
"...and she's thinking of rage, like an ember or a burning acid swallowing up her knotted viscera. Blindness like the kind that leads men to perpetrate horrors, animal drunkenness, the jungles of the m..."
"It never meant anything, Moses says. Not to the god above it and not to the earth below it. It never did. Not even when they first did it. But it’s the doin it that counts. It’s something. You draw im..."
"...a noisy parade of memories that frustrate her because of the way they play themselves out. These memories-it feels like she's back there in the moment, like she has the moment to do over and make d..."
"Honey, she says, honest ain’t the half of what I’m not."
"Dying is Easy , its Living that's hard"
"Stories that pander to your every readerly desire and whim are like overly loyal dogs that live for the simple glow of your approval. I'm a cat person. I like a little aloofness in my pets and my writ..."
"To stop. To cease, just for a moment. To turn your back on the world, to close your eyes - to see the nothing that is not rather than the nothing that is everywhere around you. To just be quiet in you..."
"It's one of the happy things about a world gone so wrong: your personal freakishness don't stand out so much."