You think you know someone. But mostly you just know what you want to know.

I will be waiting by candlelight in our tree house of the mind.

I guess Satan was the first superhero [...] In his first adventure, he took the form of a snake to free two prisoners being held naked in a Third World jungle prison by an all-powerful megalomaniac. At the same time, he broadened their diet and introduced them to their own sexuality.

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

Don't ever have children, Tyler, unless you're ready to be afraid everyday for the rest of your life.

Her sanity was a fragile thing, a butterfly cupped in her hands, that she carried with her everywhere, afraid of what would happen if she let it go-or got careless and crushed it.

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