You solve all the riddles, find all the clues… then you get a prize.
We novelists, you know, we have to worry about motivation, beware of coincidence, you know, and describe the situations, which is total bulls***. Life doesn’t work like that. Never did.
There’s something you have to understand about the pool. Every poet, artist, storyteller, they go to the pool. It’s dangerous, but it also heals and renews. Like the human imagination.[to Lisey]
Stories are all I have. And now I have you.[Lisey Landon: Why are they so important to you?]
I know you understand love, because if you didn’t, you would’ve left me that night I cut myself on the window.[to Lisey]
Every marriage keeps its own secrets.