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That was always the hardest part, missing you.

It's different being afraid when there's the hope it will amount to something.

It was as if I'd lost some cosmic game of musical chairs; the song had stopped, I was left standing, and there was simply nothing to be dine about it.

It's love that enslaves us.

Strange how one minute life was a certain way and then it was another, and you couldn't remember what you'd done to make it all happen.

But I did what I thought was right in the moment. In the end, that's all a man has to measure his life, and it's plenty.

Behind every writer stands a very large bookshelf.

A lot of life, Michael had learned, came down to trying to fix things that weren't fixable.

Our place had just four rooms and voices had a way of carrying, you couldn't sneeze in one room without somebody in another saying bless you.

We have mortgaged the planet and spent the cash on trifles.

Who is the monster now?

It had never occurred to her that God would cry, but of course that was wrong. God would be crying all the time. He would cry and cry and never stop.

If you are writing any book about the end of the world, what you are really writing about is what's worth saving about it.

Nothing lasts forever." "Some things do." "What kind of things?" "The things we like to remember. The love we've felt for people.

The world was a world of dreaming souls who could not die.

Since our first, furry ancestor scraped flint on stone and banished night with fire, we have climbed heavenward on a ladder made of our own arrogance.

I think many years ago I got on a bus in L.A. and drove around to see the stars' homes, but that's the extent of my direct experience in Hollywood.

All his life he had wanted to be known by just one person. That's what love was, he decided. Love was being known.

The guy could sell sunlamps in a cancer ward.

Maybe just being alive, and having someone to love who loved you back, was enough.

Zander was always sneaking off to the library to get more books ... Guy would read anything. Said books were more interesting than people.

I like creating villains.

What was childhood if not a passage from light to dark, of the soul's slow drowning in an ocean of ordinary matter? During

My rule has always been, write the next part of the book that you seem to know well. So I won't necessarily write chapter two after chapter one.

He knew what he'd see; one more slack face, one more pair of eyes that had barely learned to read, one more soul that had stared into itself too long.

Vampires have always been hot. They are one of our most durable monsters. It's one of those stories that galvanizes us early and it's always going on.

Real courage is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. Doing the unpopular thing because it's what you believe, and the heck with everybody.

When they come, they come from above.

The world had a way of speaking to you if you let it; the trick was learning to hear.

This was their way; a lot was said by saying nothing. She

What were the living dead, Wolgast thought, but a metaphor for the misbegotten march of middle age?

Michael lifted a menu from a stack on the counter and opened it. 'What's meatloaf?' I get the meat part, but a loaf of it?

We made war on the planet, and the planet fought back.

For the first time in my life, I felt the pain of missing people I had not yet left.

This is a writ of commutation, Anthony, signed by Governor Jenna Bush.

It was like leading people to the edge of a cliff, showing them the view, and then shoving them off.

When he decided they weren't police, he realized he'd been thinking maybe they were.

I'm an ecumenical reader, grew up with all sorts of fiction, teach writing, went to the Iowa Writers' Workshop, so my tastes and interests are broad.

We live, we die. Somewhere along the way, if we're lucky, we may find someone to help lighten the load.

We search for ourselves in our surroundings, and everything I saw was either brand-new or falling apart. Most

God invented Iowa, he always said, so people could leave it and never come back.

It is an interesting truth that the human body, liberated from its head, is in essence a bag of blood with a built-in straw. Holding

I could have held his hand.

Absolution is not the same as understanding.

To have a child was to receive the gift of true immortality - not time stopped, as it had stopped in Amy, but time continuing and everlasting.

Drinking myself blind seemed like the next logical step.

Even on the darkest night, my friend, life will have its way.

Writers who pretend that everything they're doing is completely new are full of it.

Ten years, a hundred years, a thousand - once passed, I thought, time was all the same, all over.

The sadness you feel is not your own. It's his sadness you feel in your heart, Amy, for missing you.

Yet, to yield, to accept death: the mind forbade it. The mind demanded, against all sense, to go on. Fanning

So, at the last, a story.

All those years, waiting for the Army, and it turns out the Army is us.

One day you have Einstein, puzzling over the theory of relativity, the next you've got the Manhattan Project and a big hole in the ground.

I like cats as much as the next person, in the right quantity.

Someone once told me that part of you lives on so long as somebody remembers you.

The floor was slick with blood, so much blood that he felt his feet sliding on it, the grease of human remains.

All things found their ends.

Weren't the question the man had wrong, it was his way of asking it.

But as love turns to grief, and grief becomes anger, so must anger yield to thought, in order to know itself.

Courage is easy, when the alternative is getting killed.

The heart, once broken, stayed broken.

That was when you got to actually liking people, which was a problem. Things fell apart fast after that.

This girl from nowhere. This Amy NLN. Who was alpha, who omega? Who the beginning and who the end?

Too many what-ifs are just a way to keep yourself up at night, and there's not enough decent sleep to go around.

I've never stopped and never ever will. But the words got tangled up somewhere between his mouth and his brain, and the moment slipped away.

One of the great themes in American literature is the individual's confrontation with the vast open spaces of the continent.

This ravishing world. This achingly bittersweet, ravishing world.

If asked to name the worst moment of his life, Michael Fisher wouldn't have hesitated to give his answer: it was when the lights went out.

The lie had worked so far, but Lacey felt its softness, like a floor of rotten boards beneath her feet.

I was very much a child of the Cold War.

So, whenever I'm writing, I'm writing in the presence of all the other books I've read and I think we all are.

I died and then was brought to life, the oldest tale there is. I

Doubt is human nature. It's what we do with it that matters.

I like to break left when people think I'm going to go right.

And how am I to face the odds Of man's bedevilment and God's?

What is left when there is no love? A rope and rock.

You are Entering the Red Zone.
Proceed at Own Risk.
When in Doubt Run.

The military was all about hierarchies, who urinated highest on the hydrant

Don't be afraid to ask if you're on the right train.

It was true, what they said about the stars. The more you looked, the more you saw.

What strange places our lives can carry us to, what dark passages.

And I grew up on a steady diet of science fiction, especially apocalyptic and postapocalyptic fiction.

From small mistakes come great catastrophes;

How wonderful to be read to. To be carried from this world and into another, born away on words.

Grief was a place, Sara understood, where a person went alone.

Wolgast leaned back in his chair and realized how exhausted he was. It always came upon him like this, like the sudden unclenching of a fist.

Events can seem random while you're living them, but when you look back, what do you see? A chain of coincidences? Plain old luck? Or something more?

What is home but a place where you are truly known?

It happened fast. Thirty-two minutes for one world to die, another to be born.

Because that's what heaven is ... it's opening the door of a house in twilight and everyone you love is there.

Never a good sign, he thought, when the crows showed up.

I should think it a wonderful thing to be missed, the way that I miss him.

We are born faithful and afraid, when it should be the opposite; it is life that teaches us how much we stand to lose.

All night his mind seemed to skip over the surface of sleep like a stone upon water, never quite breaking the skin. As

It's children, he thought, that give us our lives; without them we are nothing, we are here and then gone, like the dust. A

I have any number of completely dark obsessions and fascinations, and none of this was present in my profile or my growing profile as a writer.

There were people who were like this, the ones who could not be ruffled or else didn't show it, who possessed great internal reservoirs of calm.

My inventing time is all done under the influence of aerobic exercise. Basically, I do all my thinking while I run.

I was a 'Planet of the Apes'-obsessed kid.