I'm sorry I kissed you- it was selfish and it upset you- but you can't ask me to pretend I didnt want to.

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.

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

I thought weirdness was a good thing. I don't mean that defensively, either. I thought it was something to be cultivated.

You are the only thing I have that is neither duty nor obligation, the only thing I chose for myself. The only thing I want.

I’ve stripped my life down,” he told me. “I don’t need much. I have all the company I want to keep right in here.” He shot himself in the head with his fingers. “People don’t understand about the need to live simply. They make appointments all day. They even schedule their own deaths. The first time they’ll have freedom to really be themselves is when they no longer exist. But up here, there’s nothing but me and the sky. A million billion stars.

Put your puppet on the throne." said Talathain. "You may make her Queen but she won’t be Queen for long.