Look, you can’t think of a person like it’s one thing, one ‘I’ that decides everything. The brain is a collective, a huge number of all these thinking modules. It doesn’t make a decision, it...

I’ve always been a sucker for the beautiful and the batshit.

Everything beautiful hurts.

There was as much joy in surrendering free will as exercising it.

He twirled a finger, the universal symbol for roll down your window — universal despite the fact that no one had manually rolled down a window in twenty years.

Everyone develops a tolerance to happiness.

The best aunts aren’t substitute parents, they’re co-conspirators.

God gets the easiest performance reviews.

You’re being parental’, I said. ‘Go find that squid’.

Perhaps that’s a smile on Delia’s face-but Delia’s half skull turns every expression into a leer. She says, “Your uncle had a talent, kid. He made families wherever he went.

Jesus, he ‘s blogger,” Pax said. “Arrest him, Deke.

The rhythm of breath may have been our first language.

A monster crosses over into the everyday world. The mortals struggle and show great courage, but it’s no use. The monster kills first the guilty, then the innocent, until finally only one remains. The Last...