Having a brain hurt so much sometimes.
You young things are too easily persuaded by the touch of lips.
The flowers were so beautiful, so delicate and unthreatening, but they choked everything around them.
I'd watched too many schoolmates graduate into mental institutions, into group homes and jails, and I knew that locking people up was paranormal - against normal, not beside it. Locks didn't cure; they strangled.
But it's always taking a risk, when you ... kiss someone new.
Barking hard work, being a boy.