"If you can't get out of bed for long enough, people come and take your bed away."

"I had to walk into the dark, into a dark darker than any I had ever been in. So dark that it was like the dark I imagine inside my body, as if there was no difference between the dark inside of me and the dark outside, as if I had stopped existing."

"Nothing ever seems interesting when it belongs to you -- only when it doesn't."

"Earl announced he'd come back to make pancakes. Jamie was glad to hear it, because he liked pancakes and liked knowing what was next."