Your mind will believe comforting lies while also knowing the painful truths that make those lies necessary. And your mind will punish you for believing both.

I wish I had a hundred years, she said, very quietly. A hundred years I could give to you.

Schooling ain't life." "Ain't it?" she says, her eyebrows raising in mock surprise.

A book… it’s a world all on its own too. A world made of words, where you live for a while.

Sometimes people need to lie to themselves most of all.

The justifications of men who kill should always be heard with skepticism, said the monster.

That's the thing I'm learning about being thrown out on yer own. Nobody does nothing for you. If you don't change it, it don't get changed.