As the dog sprinted back, Jack said to the girl, "Sweetheart,honey, why do you have to be so hateful?" "Why not?" Ellie said. "It's not like being good ever got me anywhere.

The grief in her green eyes slips then hardens and, for an instant, Pendleton sees the woman she has become and has no right being, not at sixteen.

I am a ghost in a land of phantoms and forgotten nightmares.

This is a fairy tale with teeth and claws.

What's the point of not taking chances? I don't know if I could stand living my whole life afraid.

The familiar was usually invisible; how many people really noticed everything they saw?

Everybody breaks sooner or later, Bob. Anyone can drown. Sometimes you see it. Most often, you don’t because the body protects and the skin hides, so drowning doesn’t look like drowning and some people scar so nicely. Take it from an expert.