I sat at the back, listening to the music or mumbling through the sevice. I'm never tempted by God, but I like his trappings.

“A book is a magic carpet that flies you off elsewhere. A book is a door. You op…”

“I was happy but happy is an adult word. You don't have to ask a child about hap…”

“And I thought of us, years and years later, you and I, in Paris, and how you se…”

“To tell someone not to be emotional is to tell them to be dead.”