'Help me,' Allison says, but she is soft-spoken, and everyone she loves is so far away.

This is my knife. It is very sharp and very eager to hurt you.

I will love you as misfortune loves orphans, as fire loves innocence, and as justice loves to sit and watch while everything goes wrong.

I had this idea about terrible things happening to orphans, and I knew it was such a horrible idea that the idea of writing it down and then submitting it professionally was obviously absurd.

I never want to be away from you again, except at work, in the restroom or when one of us is at a movie the other does not want to see.

I guess we’ll be traveling in uncharted waters.” “That’ll be fun,” Phil said.

Do the scary thing first, and get scared later.