“Rose lived the same life I did, but she doesnt have PTSD. No bad dreams, no missing memories. Sometimes Im jealous that she seems to deal with everything better than I do. But then Ill catch her wi...”

“To us, reality is just raw footage: Unclear. Desultory. Too shocking or not quite shocking enough. Its ironic that making something more real involves making it less real, but Gideon always says pe...”

“Gideon and I sit there in the dark, wordless for a while, only our ragged breaths disturbing the silence. Memories of my sister overwhelm meI see her impish grin as she leans over me at the orphana...”

“No, Gideon says. No guns. The most dangerous weapon you have is your brain. Give someone a gun and they tend to quit using it.”

“I am not warm. That is why my sister chose the name Winter for me.”

“I dream of a small room and a man with one eye. Blood seeps like scarlet tears from his empty socket. I turn away and the room becomes a hallway that becomes a stairway that becomes a roof. The win...”

“Patients are almost always preceded by their parents, because no matter how fast an ambulance can drive, terrified parents can drive faster.”

“Later, months later, when Jude thought back to the way it all went down -how did a burnout like him end up straight edge?- he'd remember that ambulance, just like the one he'd been unconscious insi...”

“By listening to the unspoken voice of my body and allowing it to do what it needed to do; by not stopping the shaking, by tracking my inner sensations, while also allowing the completion of the def...”

“I made spasmodic efforts to work, assuring myself that once I began working I would forget her. The difficulty was in beginning. There was a feeling of weakness, a sort of powerlessness now, as tho...”

“The role played by time at the beginning of the universe is, I believe, the final key to removing the need for a Grand Designer, and revealing how the universe created itself. Time itself must com...”

“Death isn't the end, it's the beginning.”

“Stop fighting me!" he said, trying to pull on the arm he held.He was in a precarious position himself, straddling the rail as he tried to lean over far enough to get me and actually hold onto me.Le...”

“All gods who receive homage are cruel. All gods dispense suffering without reason. Otherwise they would not be worshipped. Through indiscriminate suffering men know fear and fear is the most divine...”

“Why is it that blood, rather than peace, sells?”