Please, do not leave me, Will Henry. I would not survive it. You were nearly right. What Mr. Kendall was, I am always on the brink of becoming. And you - I do not pretend to know how or even why - but you pull me back from the precipice. You are the one... You are the one thing that keeps me Human.

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

It wasn't aliens that first made us gear up for war; it was our fellow humans.

Yes, my dear child, monsters are real. I happen to have one hanging in my basement.

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.

I don't care what the stars say about how small we are. One, even the smallest, weakest, most insignificant one, matters.

How oft do they rescue or ruin us, through whimsy or design or a combination of both, the adults to whom we entrust our care!