Michael Callahan said this quote

Remember: There's a reason the fairy godmother gave Cinderella two glass slippers.

~ Michael Callahan

That's what novels are: They're amalgams of archetypes, collections of random traits one observes in other people through life, blended into fresh characters.

~ Michael Callahan

He was right: not about her playing him, or about her laughing at him, but certainly about her carelessness, about her casual disregard for how he would feel if he found out, and about the stunning lack of depth it exposed in her character.

~ Michael Callahan

...she would have walked all the way up to East Sixty-Third Street, and probably 163rd Street, if it meant pouring even more into this memory that wasn't a memory.

~ Michael Callahan