There's something ugly about the flawless.

There are so many more important things to worry about than how you're perceived by strangers.

I believe so deeply in the primacy of language, in lifting your prose to the highest level you're capable of and making your words symphonic.

Teddy wondered, and not for the first time, not by a long shot, if this was the day that missing her would finally be too much for him.

Patrick Kenzie asking a bemused waitress for a newspaper in smalltown USA. 'It’s like a homepage without a scroll button?

He was done with every lie he'd ever allowed himself to believe, every lie he'd ever lived, every lie.