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?

You can only call someone crazy if there’s someone else who’s normal. Like good and evil. If everything was good, then nothing would be good.

A word of advice, Will Henry. When a person of the female gender says she wants to show you something, run the other way. The odds are it is not something you wish to see.

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

But we fall only that we might rise, Alfred. All of us fall; all of us, as you say, screw up. Falling is not important. It is how we get up after the fall that's important.

Self-pity is egotism undiluted, after all—self-centeredness in its purest form.

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