And if humanity is the last war, then I am the battlefield.

There was, like, this black hole where the world used to be, and we were both falling toward it. What could we hold on to?

Perhaps God waits for us to be empty, so he may fill us with himself.

She hated him and loved him, longed for him and loathed him, and cursed herself for feeling anything at all

I will teach you to love death. I will empty you of grief and guilt and self-pity and fill you up with hate and cunning and the spirit of vengeance. I will make my final stand here, Benjamin Thomas Parish.

You are the human clay," Vosch whispers fiercely in my ear. "And I am Michelangelo. I am the master builder, and you will be my masterpiece.

I would kill for a cheeseburger. Honestly. If I stumbled across someone eating a cheeseburger, I would kill them for it.