“A river of images and thoughts and feelings, dirtied and polluted so that no one could drink from it without gagging.”

“A river of images and thoughts and feelings, dirtied and polluted so that no one could drink from it without gagging.”

“Disappointment is part of parenthood, Jasper. The trick is learnin' to love your kids even when they disappoint you.”

“She screamed. Her screaming was beautiful. But, truth be told he missed the crying.”

“They sent spies", Gramma went on, her voice a hush, "and they look like one man, but they can split into two, then four, and so on. I've seen it before. During the war. It's a Communist trick and they taught it to the Democrats so that they could take our guns. I would have fought them off, but they already made the shotgun disappear.”

“Anger was a waste of time and energy. Anger was useless."Anger" was the label given to the emotion that accomplished nothing.”

“Your words hurt, Jazz. They hurt like cotton balls thrown in my direction.”

“A river of images and thoughts and feelings, dirtied and polluted so that no one could drink from it without gagging.”

“How do I know that what I see as blue and what you see as blue are the same thing? Answer: We don't. We take it on faith.”

“I’m a complicated man, with complicated taste buds.”

“There were dragons, in his dreams, as though some part of him knew the trials were not yet over, that there were battles yet to be fought. He slept fitfully, fidgeting, tossing and turning, groaning and crying out in his sleep.”

“What was the opposite of linkage blindness? What described being certain of something without any kind of evidence?.”