“Gradually, after being the target a few times of a similar capriciousness, which he discerned as default behavior for most people, and not liking it, Paul learned to not be more generous or enthusi...”

“It would take her thousands of steps to get anywhere, but she would get there easily, and when she arrived, in the present, it would seem like it had been a single movement that brought her there. ...”

“On average, since the urge to kill myself isn't so strong that I actually kill myself, the world is worth living in.”

“When he heard laughter, before he could think or feel anything, his heart would already be beating like hed sprinted twenty yards. As the beating slowly normalized hed think of how his heart, unlik...”

“It was spring, not winter or autumn, Paul thought with some lingering confusion. He listened to the layered murmur of wind against leaves, familiarly and gently disorienting as a terrestrial sound ...”

“Nice" said Paul staring transfixed at Fran's delicate and extreme gaze, like that of a skeleton with eyeballs, or a person with their face peeled off.”

“We are here on earth for a while.”

“It's who you is when folks knocks at the door of your heart what counts. Hide the past and it gives them what's jealous of you the power to bring you undone.”

“In the dark , everything is scary”