I want to be the kind of boy you are, thought Bean. But I don’t want to go through what you’ve been through to get there.

Maybe that's all demons ever are. People like us, doing things without even knowing what we're doing.

The only people who think children are carefree are the ones who've forgotten their own childhood.

I stole their future from them; I can only being to repay by seeing what I can learn from their past.

It is a common trait of primates to become submissive and even worshipful toward one who has the power to kill them.

Here's the secret that every successful software company is based on: You can domesticate programmers the way beekeepers tame bees. You can't exactly communicate with them, but you can get them to swarm in one place and when they're not looking, you can carry off the honey.

As long as you keep getting born, it's alright to die some times.