The difference between childhood and adulthood, Vic had come to believe, was the difference between imagination and resignation. You traded one for the other and lost your way.

I mean, when the world comes for your children, with the knives out, it's your job to stand in the way.

The blood of a redheaded woman is three degrees cooler than the blood of a normal woman. This has been established by medical studies.

Some things you didn't give away, no matter how much you owed.

Don't believe everything you hear today

You loved me as hard as you knew how. I'd give anything to go back and love you better.

Horror was rooted in sympathy . . . in understanding what it would be like to suffer the worst.