Great Circle: the dazzling, instant New York Times bestseller

I’m always fascinated by things that turn into phenomenons. Like, why, you know? What is it that strikes a chord in so many people? When it happens, it seems so intuitive in retrospect, like you can clearly see the void that was filled, but the real trick is identifying the void when it’s still a void.”

She couldn’t fathom that others did not see her for what she would become, that she did not wear the fact of her future like some eye-catching garment. Her belief that she would fly saturated her world, presented an appearance of absolute truth.

bibliomancer,

No one in Hollywood cares I was unfaithful to Oliver, but they’ll care I was unfaithful to the brand.”

we don’t always notice beginnings. Endings are usually easier to detect.

Your life can’t be a debt, she’d countered once, or then it’s not really yours, and nothing has been saved.

Like constellations. It’s impossible to ever fully explain yourself while you’re alive, and then once you’re dead, forget about it—you’re at the mercy of the living.”

They were a pair, as some things naturally and undeniably were, and once a pair was established, everything outside it (himself, for example) became inevitably and inherently extraneous.

they wouldn’t like the books if the story gave them exactly what they wanted.