The moon's a powerful mistress. She can reach through any wall or covering and work her wicked charms.

It is good to be taught humility when we are young. If we do not exeperience pain as children, we will cause pain as adults.

You can't hang around waiting for somebody else to pull your strings. Destiny's what you make of it. You have to face whatever life throws at you. And if it throws more than you'd like, more than you think you can handle? Well then you just have to find the heroism within yourself and play out the hand you've been dealt. The universe never sets a challenge that can't be met. You just need to believe in yourself in order to find the strength to face it.

Throw up whatever's making you sick, Darren," he said, "then get your behind back in here.

Real life's nasty. It's cruel. It doesn't care about heroes and happy endings and the way things should be. In real life, bad things happen. People die. Fights are lost. Evil often wins.

I'd like to do something to help the worst afflicted, but I can't. It's not possible to save everybody. Even heroes have their all-too-human limits.

Your spikes have gone floppy.