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She knows she shouldn’t have gotten into the vehicle. That’s how girls vanish. That’s how girls vanish every day. If you get in the car it’s over. If you get in the car, you’re lost forever. You don’t get in the vehicle, you turn around and you run, run, run.
Getting Kylie back is the sun and the stars and the entire universe.
Rachel points a finger at the place where the mirror used to be. You dumb bitch. I wish you had died. I wish you had been one of the 10 percent who’d died!
“Oh, Rachel, why do birds suddenly appear every time that you’re near?” Because they’re actually carrion crows and I’m one of the goddamn undead, she thinks but doesn’t say. “Good morning, Colin, how are you?”
If they harm one hair on Kylie’s head, he will scorch their world and stamp on the smoldering ashes.
“In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
Absurdity is the ontological mismatch between the desire for meaning and the inability to find meaning in this world.
Life is a cascade of nows falling on top of one another without meaning or purpose. Of all the philosophers, only Schopenhauer ever got that right.
Every human being walking this earth can be forced to violate his or her deepest beliefs and principles. Isn’t that hilarious?
Chemo is a little death that you invite in in order to keep the big death waiting outside on the porch.
Oliver knows that he can’t hit a girl, but he hits her anyway.
Atomic number seventy-seven was the harbinger of death for the dinosaurs. It’s an ending number. All books should end on the seventy-seventh chapter. They never do, though.
Pete’s wound looks terrible, but his dark eyes still have fire in them. Death is going to have to deal with a force that is shamanic, strong, inimical.
Clearly the god of war is keeping one of them alive just for his own amusement.
She has survived. Life is fragile, fleeting, and precious. And to live at all is miracle enough.
