People who claim that they're evil are usually no worse than the rest of us... It's people who claim that they're good, or any way better than the rest of us, that you have to be wary of.

So she listened hard. And she began to evolve, because stories work their magic that way. They build conviction and erode conviction in equal measure.

Children are wickeder than adults, they have no sense of restraint.

The future reshapes the memory of the past in the way it recalibrates significance; some episodes are advanced, others lose purchase.

Well, the family always was bright, and brightness, as you know, decays brilliantly.

...No opening sermons concerning children with humps and fins for limbs, who nonetheless, immortal souls all, deserve life, liberty, and the pursuit of Happy Meals.

It isn't whether you do it well or ill, it's that you do it all.