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

His heart, the war. Her face, the battlefield.

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.

There are times when fear is not our enemy. There are times when fear is our truest, sometimes only, friend.

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.

Nothing makes us love something more than the loss of it.

Maybe you reach a certain point in evolution where boredom is the greatest threat to your survival. Maybe this isn't a planetary takeover at all, but a game. Like a kid pulling wings off flies.