“There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by.”

“Crystals grew inside rock like arithmetic flowers. They lengthened and spread, added plane to plane in an awed and perfect obedience to an absolute geometry that even stones - maybe only the...”

“I am a frayed and nibbled survivor in a fallen world, and I am getting along. I am aging and eaten and have done my share of eating too. I am not washed and beautiful, in control of a shinin...”

“She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live. She read books as one would breathe ether, to sink in and die.”