Extraits

He had more faith in those days - these last ten years he had lost faith in his faith. The world was getting darker, not brighter. The poor were poorer, the rich were richer. People were killing each other in the name of God. What kind of a God wanted his followers to act like they were gun-slung avatars jihading it through "World of Warcraft" ?

If this was the end of time then fire it right back into eternity and get it over with.

So many stories of lost anf found.

As though the whole of history is a vast Lost-Property Department.

Perhaps it began when the moon splintered off from the earth, pale, lonely, watchful, present, unsocial, inspired. Earth's autistic twin.

"MiMi needs a friend. And Leo is pretty unstable."

"We're all unstable. Leo is like a cartoon of somebody who's unstable, that's all."

"Leo is like a cartoon of somebody who's unstable who turns out to be himself."

The important things happen by chance. Only the rest gets planned.

"Death is the least important thing in my life. What difference will it make ? I won't be here."

"I will be here," I said.

"That's the cruelty," she said. "If I could live my death for you I would."