It's not that you should never love something so much that it can control you. It's that you need to love something that much so you can never be controlled. It's not a weakness. It's your best strength.

It is a true story, the monster said. Many things that are true feel like a cheat.

There's hope at the bottom of the biggest waterfall." ~pg 426

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.

if one of us falls, we all fall

Real life is only ever just real life. Messy. What it means depends on how you look at it. The only thing you’ve got to do is find a way to live there.

Men lie, and they lie to theirselves worst of all.