Good books leave an impression. Great books forever alter the way you think about what it means to be alive. You Disappear is not just a well-told story, but a dramatic recalibrating of what it means to have a mind-and… — Dara Horn Copy Share Image
“Because once you're born you might feel all of those things," Boris was saying. "In any order. And you can't control it." Daniel looked up, but Boris had turned away from him, his eyes staring at the ground. He held… — Dara Horn Copy Share Image
The wicked will run to the iron bridge, but it will collapse under their weight. The righteous will cross the paper bridge, and it… — Dara Horn Copy Share Image
“I believe that when people die, they go to the same place as all the people who haven’t yet been born. That’s why it’s… — Dara Horn Copy Share Image
“Ben, everything is going to get better," he heard her say in the void. "Really. It has to get better, because it can't get… — Dara Horn Copy Share Image
And the reward when good people die - her mother paused, swallowed, paused again - the reward when good people die is that they… — Dara Horn Copy Share Image
“There is a moment that has happened over and over again, in every place children have ever slept, on every dark night for the… — Dara Horn Copy Share Image
“Hair in darkness doesn’t feel the way it does in light. In light, you can touch a person’s hair and not feel it at… — Dara Horn Copy Share Image
“School is a terrible place, I have decided. There is nothing good about it except for math class. Everything else is a total waste… — Dara Horn Copy Share Image
Children are often envied for their supposed imaginations, but the truth is that adults imagine things far more than children do. Most adults wander… — Dara Horn Copy Share Image
“She didn’t know exactly when she had first felt the sensation of regret. It was a physical sensation, a shudder that began deep in… — Dara Horn Copy Share Image
“But there is also something inherently shameful in the rescuer-rescued relationship - the humiliation of being reduced to depending on another person for survival… — Dara Horn Copy Share Image
“Do you think I'm deaf?" the deaf beggar asked. "I'm not deaf at all. It's just that it isn't worth hearing a whole world… — Dara Horn Copy Share Image
“His dreams contained no stories at all, but only the hard stones of thoughts: the unimaginably unlikely coincidence of being alive at the same… — Dara Horn Copy Share Image
