Past experience told me he could smell my fear; it also told me that the anger accompanying it would pretty much cover the scent. It's good to know how to compensate for your own weaknesses.​

...but that was the thing about reality. It didn't need to make sense.

She laughed like she'd just invented laughter.​

The problem with people who say monsters don't really exist is that they're almost never saying it to the monsters." —Alice Healy

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.

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

Nothing says "deeply in mourning" like canapés and free beer.