It almost felt like she was sucking it all out of me, like she sucked on that sticky red lollipop, the one she kept licking as she drove.

Evil doesn't always have one face, Ethan.

Age-appropriate makeup? Who are you people? What makeup is age-appropriate for a seven-year-old?

I couldn't sit by and watch them try to take her down. Not her.

Old things are better than new things, because they've got stories in them, Ethan.

bent like the branches of a tree broken like the pieces of my heart cracked like the seventeenth moon shattered like the glass in the window the day we met

You watch yourself. One day you're going to pick a hole in the sky and the universe is gonna fall right through. Then we'll all be in a fix