The last to fall were the buildings, distant and solemn, the gravestones for an entire world.

It's not John who wants to cut his mother into tiny pieces, it's Mr. Monster. See? I feel better already.

Fear is a ... it's a weird thing, when you think about it. People are only afraid of other things, they're never afraid of themselves.

It's like . . . time is flowing backward. We're caveman archeologists in the ruins of the future.

This is life...Not a peace treaty, not an idealistic dream, but a grim dance of death and survival. The strong live on while the weak--the ones too small or too foolish to fight back--die in agony and blood.

I'd rather know how you feel than hope and wonder and delude myself for weeks on end.

APD is primarily defined as a lack of empathy,' I said. I'd looked it up too, a few months ago. Empathy is what allows people to interpret emotion, the same way ears interpret sounds; without it you become emotionally deaf. 'It means I don't connect emotionally with other people. I wondered if he was going to pick that one.' 'How do you even know that?' she said. 'You're fifteen years old, for goodness' sake. You should be ... I don't know, chasing girls or playing video games.' 'You're telling a sociopath to chase girls?