Hey Nostradamus!

the five most unattractive traits in people are cheapness, clinginess, neediness, unwillingness to change and jealousy. Jealousy is the worst, and by far the hardest to conceal. Around Jason I made myself conceal it, because what else could I do? But I don’t know how to kill jealousy. I fully expect it to turn into little steel fangs that’ll clutch me like a leghold trap the moment I need to be most tender or forgiving.

I hadn’t given this part any real thought, or rather, I’d assumed it would be magic and not need any planning.

And yet we all possessed the capacity for slipping at any moment into great sin and eternal darkness

Were we so far gone here in boring North Van that we needed a shock treatment? There are thousands of suburbs as average as us.

The school was now like a jewel case encrusted with snipers and cops

exotic lifeless nothingness

Honey, I don’t care what else you do, but the moment he hints that he wants it, you give it to him. Doesn’t matter if you’re fixing a diaper or cleaning out the gutters. You give it, pronto. Else you’ll lose him.”

people who’d discovered religion had both lost and gained something

I pray for the souls of the three killers, but I don’t know if that is right or wrong.

I think that lack of sharing weakened us.