Everything in Gatlin was rigged. Why would the carnival games be any different?

The mortal world is in a state of Beautiful Chaos and destruction, which will ultimately lead to an exquisite end.

A vegetarian? Are you insane? That's worse than bein' a quarter demon!

I may have been a Wayward, but my way was full of people who loved me. They were the only way I knew

Even when I didn't know anything else about where I was or what I was supposed to be doing. You were my Wayward, even then. Everything always brought me back to you. Everything.

Darkness, real darkness, was more than just a lack of light.

I wanted to find a place to hide from all of it, where the nightmares and the rivers and reality couldn't find me. For me, that place was always inside a book.