We just keep on having to save each other", he says. "We ever gonna be even?" "I hope not," I say

As long as I hold it as long as I use it, the knife lives, lives in order to take life, but it has to be commanded, it has to have me to tell it to kill, and it wants to, it wants to plunge and thrust and cut and stab and gouge, but I have to want it to as well, my will has to join with its will. I'm the one who allows it and I'm the one responsible.

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

So the good prince was a murderer and the evil queen wasn't a witch after all.

If you ever want to see how small you are in the plan of God, just stand at the edge of an ocean.

Too much talking," I say. "Not enough running.

I was born into all that, all that mess, the over-crowded swamp and the over-crowded sematary and the not-crowded-enough town, so I don’t remember nothing, don’t remember a world without Noise. My pa died of sickness before I was born and then my ma died, of course, no surprises there. Ben and Cillian took me in, raised me. Ben says my ma was the last of the women but everyone says that about everyone’s ma. Ben may not be lying, he believes it’s true, but who knows?