The green things of this world are just wondrous, aren’t they?” his mother went on. “We work so hard to get rid of them when sometimes they’re the very thing that saves us.

It’s a trick Ben taught me to help settle my Noise. You close yer eyes and as clearly and calmly as you can you tell yerself who you are, cuz that’s what gets lost in all that Noise.

Yer the only friend I got, pigpiss... Ain't that the biggest tragedy you ever heard?

Life equals running and when we stop running maybe that's how we'll know life is finally finished.

There is not always a good guy. Nor is there always a bad one. Most people are somewhere in between.

Life ain't fair. It ain't. Not never. It's pointless and stupid and there's only suffering and pain and people who want to hurt you. You can't love nothing or no one cuz it'll all be taken away or ruined and you'll be left alone and constantly having to fight, constantly having to run just to stay alive.

And then his noise falls completely silent- And he stops struggling- And looking right into my eyes- He dies. My Todd dies.