“I think of my pile of old paperbacks, their pages gone wobbly, like they'd once belonged to the sea.”

“Admittedly, people of a theological bent are often chronically incapable of distinguishing what is true from what they'd like to be true. (p. 135 of the Black Swan paperback edition of 2007)”

“These handwritten words in the pages of my journal confirm that from an early age I have experienced each encounter in my life twice: once in the world, and once again on the page.”

“So hurting here is where I belong
dreaming a song
Blood on my hands to stay strong
The flowers in the graveyard are all gone
I don't belong
There is no right to heal the wrong
Soup's on hot feelin' like a do or die
I can't throw up don't think i evan want to try”

“If you put Durant's brains in a thimble full of water they'd look like a ship lost in the middle of the sea.”

“When one reads these strange pages of one long gone one feels that one is at one with one who once…”

“I love inscriptions on flyleaves and notes in margins, I like the comradely sense of turning pages someone else turned, and reading passages someone long gone has called my attention to.”

“It was like that part of my life, was just gone. It was almost too easy, for something I once thought had meant everything.”

“and the color in my eyes
has gone back into the sea.”

“I've come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version.”