When the moment comes to stop running from your past, to turn around and face the thing you thought you could not face--the moment when your life teeters between giving up and getting up--when that moment comes, and it always comes, if you can't get up and you can't give up either, here's what you do: Crawl.

But monsters, I now know, come in all shapes and sizes, and only their appetite for human flesh defines them.

There are things that are too terrible to remember, and there are things that are almost too wonderful to recall.

Soon I will fall asleep and I will wake from this terrible dream. The endless night will fall, and I will rise. I long for that night. I do not fear it. I have had my fill of fear. I have stared too long into the abyss, and now the abyss stares back at me.

There's an old saying about truth setting you free. Don't buy it. Sometimes the truth slams the cell door shut and throws a thousand bolts.

When I wake up the next morning, there's a Hershey's Kiss sitting on the table beside me.

And then Evan Walker kisses me.