Luck ran out, but smart was for life..

I'd been hurt, and in response I had acted violently, destroying a little of myself each time I did so..

42. Most people will spend their lives doing jobs that they don't particularly enjoy, and will eventually save up enough money to stop doing those jo….

Without a human voice to read them aloud, or a pair of wide eyes following them by flashlight beneath a blanket, they had no real existence in our wo….

This world is full of broken things: broken hearts, broken promises, broken people..

On more than one occasion David, in his urge to explore the darker corners of the bookshelves, had found himself wearing strands of spider silk in hi….

Why is there always one bloke in these boy bands who looks like he came to fix the boiler and somehow got bullied into joining the group?.

There are people whose eyes you must avoid, whose attention you must not draw to yourself. They are strange, parasitic creatures, lost souls seeking ….

You can't prove that something doesn't exist. You can only prove that something does exist..

The Detective was different. Not that he wasn't a good man; Willie had heard enough about him to understand that he was the kind who didn't like to t….

He would talk to them of stories and books, and explain to them how stories wanted to be told and books wanted to be read, and how everything that th….

I am sorry," I whispered. "I am sorry for all of the ways that I failed you. I am sorry that I was not there to save you, or to die alongside you. I ….

It was an overcast late November morning, the grass splintered by hoarfrost, and winter grinning through the gaps in the clouds like a bad clown peer….

We all have our routines," he said softly."But they must have a purpose and provide an outcome that we can see and take some comfort from, or else th….

I think the act of reading imbues the reader with a sensitivity toward the outside world that people who don't read can sometimes lack. I know it see….

Being scared isn't the problem. It's not running away that's the hard part..

a technician who uses the term “glitch” is like a Doctor who tells you you’re suffering from a “thingy,” except the doctor won’t tell you to go home ….

. . . For a lifetime was but a moment in that place, and each man dreams his own heaven. And in the darkness David closed his eyes, as all that was l….

They were on the side of the angels, even if the angels weren't entirely sure that this was a good thing..

Here is a truth, a truth by which to live: there is hope. There is always hope. If we choose to abandon it, our souls will turn to ash and blow away..

For in every adult there dwells the child that was, and in every child there lies the adult that will be..