Sometimes fiction is a way of coping with the poison of the world in a way that lets us survive it.

“I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don'…”

“They were kissing. Put like that, and you could be forgiven for presuming that …”

“You have to finish things — that’s what you learn from, you learn by finishing …”

“Now,” she told them, “now is the time to be afraid of the dark.” Richard knew t…”