I was always holding onto people, and they were always leaving.

Would I be as strong as that once I did that thing Christophe was talking about? Blooming? Would I smell like a bakery item? Or was that just him? Did he use pie filling for cologne?

Boys always get the best eyelashes; it's like some kind of cosmic law. And half-breed kids get some kind of extra help there from genetics, too.

Christophe, with the careful tone of an adult telling a kid not to pet the nice foaming-rabid pooch.

What you cannot escape, you must fight; what you cannot fight, you must endure.

And ordering me around is exactly the wrong way to make me do what you want.

Touch me again, and it will be your last act in life - Blue Eyes.