Books—they weren't ladders out of the abyss, but they were companions.

It's fine," I repeated. And whatever. It was fine. It had to be.

The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention.

He puts the killing thing in his mouth but doesn't give it the power to kill him.

But pizza was originally Italian, although, Italian pizza doesn't taste much like this because this pizza is fortified with sodium. Which is a mineral...or a vitamin. All I know is that it's good for you.

If I'm too old to be Emo, how do you account for the very Emo and very old Edgar Allan Poe? Checkmate!

You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.