Follow the rules whenever possible. That makes it a lot more surprising when you break them.

The only thing we have in this world that is utterly and intrinsically ours is our integrity.

I was still wearing my shoes. The staff was paid to wash the sheets after every visit, and by the point we left the field, I’d dressed and undressed so many times in the course of decontamination that I never wanted to remove my clothes again. I’d just wear them until they dissolved, and then spend the rest of my life naked.

Nothing is impossible to kill. It's just that sometimes after you kill something you have to keep shooting it until it stops moving

Post-traumatic shock,' said Shaun. 'He thinks he's a boa constrictor.

Everyone thinks of them in terms of poisoned apples and glass coffins, and forgets that they represent girls who walked into dark forests and remade them into their own reflections.

Any good Irwin can make going to the corner store for a candy bar and a Coke lood death defying and suicidal.