Monster

Being a good person is more than just not being a bad person.

The universe was filled with secrets, and he understood now that one of the biggest was that no one needed to know them all.

Your mistake, indeed the mistake of your inherently finite senses, is to view the universe as an extension of yourself. You expect that, like you, it should have a beginning, a middle, and an end. but what you fail to understand is that everything you consider to be you, except for that rather silly imaginary part you call consciousness, is merely bits and pieces borrowed from the universe, and to the universe it will all return. You had no beginning, and you will have no ending. Everything that is you has always been and will always be.

The middle was where it was too easy to be lazy and cynical at the same time.

Judy went back to Paulie’s place, but either he wasn’t home or he wasn’t answering his door. After banging on the door for four minutes, then waiting another ten, she decided she’d probably have to find someplace else to crash today She wished she’d taken the time to actually have a few friends.

What is it that demands an answer but never asks a question?

there’s nothing like having to claw and scrape your way through a sea of molten lava to remind one to keep an eye on the details.