39 quotes found
“Will you quit shouting and let me bleed in peace!”
“I cried harder. I didn't want to, but I couldn't stop myself.I couldn't stop myself, so I thought about all the bad things and I fed it and fed it until I was crying so hard I had to gasp for breat...”
“I slammed out of the Priest Hole and started walking, heading nowhere in particular. Sometimes you just need to go through a door.”
“They worried that fantasies were somehow inoculating me against more practical realities.”
“She had a heart the size of France and the lucky few whom she loved, she loved with every square inch of it. But it's size made it dangerous.”
“Their memory was something tangible and heavy, and I would carry it with me.”
“...so one day my mother sat me down and explained that I couldn't become an explorer because everything in the world had already been discovered. I'd been born in the wrong century, and I felt chea...”
“Stars, too, were time travelers. How many of those ancient points of light were the last echoes of suns now dead? How many had been born but their light not yet come this far? If all the suns but o...”
“An air of mystery closed around the details of his early life. I didn't pry. He had been through hell and had a right to his secrets.”
“Right at the flamingo orgy! Left at the multiethnic roof Santas! Straight past the pissing cherubs!”
“I knew there was something peculiar about you," she said. "And I mean that as the highest compliment." I'd always known I was strange. I never dreamed I was peculiar.”
“He closed the laptop. A sure sign I was about to receive his full attention.”
“When I was a kid, Granpa Portman's fantastic stories meant it was possible to live a magical life. Even after I stopped believing them, there was still something magical about my grandfather. To ha...”
“The day that lay before (was) full of infinite possibilities, though in a million superficial ways it was identical to the day before.”
“I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was. Likewise, I never imagined that home might be something I wo...”
“anything that changes you forever, split my life into halves: Before and After.”
“He was cross-examining my subconscious .”
“One of the peculiar children's perspective out of time allows him to take minute interest in every resident of the town and to chronicle everything we did for the entire day he lives over and over.”
“Forgive me. I continue to underestimate the breadth of your ignorance.”
