“She just eyed them coolly, as if they were nothing to her, as if their nothingness surprised and slightly repelled her.”

“She looked at her shelves, filled with books in which the bad stuff that happened to people was caused by things like witches who lured people into the woods. In a weird way, the world seemed to ma...”

“Now, the world is more than it seems to be. You know this, of course, because you read stories. You understand that there is the surface and then there are all the things that glimmer and shift und...”

“His words sounded foolish to his own ears. He was not impressive. He was small like the world.”

“What are you supposed to do when something like that happens? Do you hold on or let go?”

“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”

“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”

“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.”