You want to talk? Fine. Talk. Tell me something you've never told anybody else.' I thought for a moment. 'Turtles have the second-largest brains of any animal on the planet.' It took Isabel only a second to process this. 'No, they don't.' 'I know that's why I've never told anybody that before.

Sam,' the girl said. 'Sam.' She was the past present and future. I wanted to answer , but I was broken.

You made this?' Finn looks at me. 'No, Saint Anthony brought it to me in the night. He was very put out I didn't give it to you right then.

Boys like him didn't die; they got bronzed and installed outside public libraries.

You missed World Hist." "Did you get notes for me?" "No. I thought you were dead in a ditch.

Now I am the unknown, the unknowable.

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