“Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know.”
“People get all fouled up because they want the world to have meaning as if it were words. As if you had a meaning, as if you were a mere word, as if you were something that could be looked up in a dictionary. You are meaning.”
“You aren’t just the age you are. You are all the ages you ever have been.”
“My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn.”
“Whether you think you can or think you can’t, either way you are right.”
“She stared at her reflection in the glossed shop window as if to make sure, moment by moment, that she continued to exist.”
“I could spend the rest of my life turning my head to speak to her.”
“The snow has quietness in it; no songs, no smells, no shouts or traffic. When I speak my own voice shocks me.”
“I know pretty much what I like and dislike; but please, don’t ask me who I am.”
“The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.”