Did you ever think that in a past life Alec was an old woman with ninety cats who was always yelling at the neighborhood kids to get off her lawn? Because I do.

You're not gay, are you?" Simon's greenish color deepened. "If I were, I would dress better.

i've never asked him but i'm sure he has a fairly stringent policy about random teenagers lurking in his strubbery

Not really, but after that I think about how I could kill him while he slept if I really wanted to, and then I feel better.

Do you not tire of eternity? Do you not wish to end your suffering?" "By leaping into the Void? Not really.

Let me give you a piece of advice. The handsome young fellow who's trying to rescue you from a hideous fate is never wrong. Not even if he says the sky is purple and made of hedgehogs.

The only alternative seems to be doing nothing…and doing nothing, I find, rarely accomplishes anything