Survival strategy. If you’re not careful, this place will eat you alive, and Kaylee’s like bait for the beasts.

What matters is the face you show the world, not the quaking mess behind it.

Holy silicone suppository, Batman!” Ethan said, grinning. Dan snorted, Parker coughed to disguise a laugh, and I glared at them all. “What?” My brother shrugged defensively. “That’s what it looks like.

Dad, I can count the number of normal school days I've had this year on one hand.

Ask for the impossible, then settle instead for what you really wanted in the first place.

I’d learned that my mother was a badass in disguise. She was Van Helsing in an apron and heels, and—at least for the time being—I couldn’t think of a single thing cooler than that.

Pain is what I feed from when nothing else will nourish the noxious fury in my heart. It’s what I cling to when everything else—everyone else—slips right between my grasping fingers.