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

It was crazy how a hearse and a pair of sneakers could cheer a guy up.

Nothing was ever how you wanted it to be. Not anymore. Not for me.

Your bird drinks whiskey and eats tobacco?" The old man frowned."Just be lad he doesn't like eatin' scrawny boys that don't know their way 'round the Otherworld.

Oblivion eyes on a cereal box, the warm blinds of a father lost and last to know lost and last to love last boy lost you can't see even a bubble once it's popped

A kiss that was every bit as big and every bit as small as a kiss can be.

There's something about sitting alone in the dark that reminds you how big the world really is, and how far apart we all are.