The great forces of history were real, after a fashion. But when you examined them closely, those great forces always came down to the dreams and hungers and judgments of individuals.

I'm right here. This is who I really am. I'm not pretending.

Madness, and then illumination.

We're like the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, then eat the little brats alive.

Bean could see the hunger in their eyes. Not the regular hunger, for food, but the real hunger, the deep hunger, for family, for love, for belonging.

Home is anywhere that you know all your friends and all your enemies.

I am a creature of chemicals.