You can break a thing, but you cannot always guide it afterward into the shape you want.

There are dog people and cat people.

Crippled things are always more beautiful. It's the flaw that brings out beauty.

But if you didn't believe in monsters, then how were you going to be able to keep safe from them?

Every hero is the villain of his own story.

I haven't had a very good day. I think I might still be hung over and everyone's dead and my root beer's gone.

Nevermore," Lolli said. "That's what Luis calls it, because there are three rules: Never more than once a day, never more than a pinch at a time, and never more than two days in a row.