If you shoot, I will kill her before I die." Yes," Kitai said in a patient tone. "Which is why I have not shot you. Yet.

Your face looks like a sack of purple potatoes

This is what it look like when it WORKS?

There is no spoon. I am completely spoonless over here.

Here had lived someone else who knew that the only thing waiting at home was a sense of loneliness. Sometimes it is comforting. Most often, it isn't.

I know how you feel," I said. "You run into something you totally don't get, and it's scary as hell. But once you learn something about it, it gets easier to handle. Knowledge counters fear. It always has.

‎It isn't enough to stand up and fight darkness. You've got to stand apart from it, too. You've got to be different from it.