The Pulitzer is more useful than meaningful.
Violence is the instinctive response to fear.
Perfect young men don't get murdered, they don't even get born.
If you go around looking for accidents, asking for them, they can't be called accidents any more.
That's what a conscience is made of, scar tissue. . . Little strips and pieces of remorse sewn together year by year until they formed a distinctive pattern, a design for living.
The world of maps is nice and flat and simple. It has areas for people and areas for monsters. What a shock it is to discover the world is round and the areas merge and nothing separates the monsters and ourselves; that we are all whirling around in space together and there isn't even a graceful way of falling off.
The smell of moist earth and lilacs hung in the air like wisps of the past and hints of the future.
I'm not putting up with this," she continued. "You can't even go out and buy a solar system without worrying I'll fall apart. How are you supposed to get anything done?" "Actually, I'm not in the market for a solar system right at the moment.
Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it.
Good is good, but better carrieth it.
When someone gradually leaves your life, that's one thing because you get used to the end of it. When somebody disappears, it takes all of your control away. It leaves you frantic.