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“It’s not desiring the fall; it’s terror of the flames.”

“Avril Incandenza believes she knows him inside out as a human being, and an internally worthy one at that, when in fact inside Hal there’s pretty much nothing at all, he knows.”

“Krause never so much walking as making an infinite series of grand entrances into pocket after pocket of space.”

“You attain the goal and realize the shocking realization that attaining the goal does not complete or redeem you, does not make everything for your life “OK” as you are, in the culture, educated to assume it will do this, the goal. And then you face this fact that what you had thought would have the meaning does not have the meaning when you get it, and you are impaled by shock.”

“‘Time in the shadow of the wing of the thing too big to see, rising.’”