Maybe she'd always been there. Maybe strangers enter your heart first and then you spent the rest of your life searching for them.

Someone had to be blamed. Someone had to die. (...) What you can't understand, you destroy.

But grieving people are selfish. They won’t let you comfort them and they say you don’t understand and they make you feel useless when all your life you’ve been functional to them.

No, no, no, no,no,' he gasped. 'You can't bring up your mum and dad while your hand is down there, Finke

See them together and you will feel a force that will take your breath away.

We're so different. You're an intellectual. I'm an idiot." "Don't say that," I yelled. "You're not an idiot, you stupid idiot.

Girls under the age of fourteen are the most frightening creatures I have ever come across. - Jonah Griggs