You can't be beautiful," Brandy says about a thousand times, "until you feel beautiful.

Demons are former celebrities who prey on their own insecurities.

There was no real sense of life because she had nothing to contrast it with.

It's easy to attack and destroy an act of creation. It's a lot more difficult to perform one.

If the living are haunted by the dead, then the dead are haunted by their own mistakes.

Some stories, she’d say, the more you tell them, the faster you use them up. Those kind, the drama burns off, and every version, they sound more silly and flat. The other kind of story, it uses you up. The more you tell it, the stronger it gets. Those kind of stories only remind you how stupid you were. Are. Will always be.

This wasn't any mere song and dance; here was a bold, blaring declaration howling itself into the empty face of death.