“People expected certain things of me: assistance, silence, comfort. They had no idea who I was.”

“Our house was littered with books- in the kitchen, under the beds, stuck between the couch pillows--far too many for her the ever finish. I suppose I thought if my grandmother kept up her interests...”

“You want to know what love is? Its the thing that ruins you.”

“Every fairy tale had a bloody lining. Every one had teeth and claws.”

“Crying wasn't like riding a bike. Give it up, and you quickly forget how it's done.”

“I thought he knew me better than most...Then one nigh Jack brought me flowers, a handful of fading daisies he'd picked up at a farm stand, but flowers all the same. That was the end; that was how h...”

“Each smallest act of kindness, reverberates across great distances and spans of time --affecting lives unknown to the one whos generous spirit, was the source of this good echo. Because kindness is...”

“She hadn't gone back in time. The idea was ”

“I knew the power of a single wish, after all. Invisible and inevitable, like a butterfly that beats its wings in one corner of the globe and with that single action changes the weather halfway acro...”

“In fact, the mere act of opening the box will determine the state of thecat, although in this case there were three determinate states the catcould be in: these being Alive, Dead, and Bloody Furious.”

“Government succeeds by failing.”

“If patterns of ones and zeroes were "like" patterns of human lives and deaths, if everything about an individual could be represented in a computer record by a long strings of ones and zeroes, then...”

“You should never wish for wishful thinking.”

“What you desire is what you want, what you have is what Allah wants.”

“Most people say if you tell a wish it won't come true. But I don't think wishes work like that. I don't believe there's some bad-tempered wish-fairy with a clipboard, checking off whether or not yo...”