We all, one day, realize that we’re not going to be kids forever and we’re going to grow up.

My chest ached, my body speaking a language my head didn't quite understand. I waited. But Grace, the only person in the world I wanted to know me, just ran a wanting finger over the cover of one of the new hardcovers and walked out of the store without ever realising I was there, right within reach.

When you traffic in monsters, that's the risk you run, that you'll find one too monstrous to stomach.

I guess I make things that need energy stronger. I'm like a walking battery.

Hi,' I said, and I hugged her. I missed her more now that I actually had her in my arms than when I hadn't.

It wasn't the sort of kiss I'd had with him before, hungry, wanting, desperate. It wasn't the sort of kiss I'd had with anyone before. This kiss was so soft that it was like a memory of a kiss, so careful on my lips that it was like someone running his fingers along them.

I whisper like the sea in the horse's ear.