Ghosts don't haunt people--their memories do.

Dreaming led to disappointment, and disappointment to a kind of depressed funk that wasn’t easy to shake. Better to stay in the gray than get eaten by the dark.

If you're going to knock down my suggestion, you'd better have one to replace it.

Because she knows what it's like to live in a world of black, and black, and the tiny bit of white, but when she escaped it, she didn't find the rainbow of colors, the dresses, the singing, the dancing. She only found ugliness.

Where in the world did you get that dress?" "Present from Zu." "You look like you want to throw it in a fire." "I can't promise there won't be an unfortunate accident later on.

—I don't want to lose you —Then why are you the one that keeps letting go?

I'm a monster, you know. I'm one of the dangerous ones. No you aren't, he promised. Your one of us.