The minute we decide that one person doesn´t matter anymore, they´ve won.

Adolphus is not at his desk. That means he is somewhere in the Monstrumarium, has gone home for the day, or is dead.

I have a very low tolerance for boredom and often think I would have missed out on books entirely if Id grown up in the Internet and video game age. Now I enjoy books for people of all ages, including children.

Cruelty isn't a personality trait. Cruelty is a habit.

It's an either/or world now.

If the world breaks a million and one promises, can you trust the million and second?

Perhaps that is our doom, our human curse, to never really know one another.