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.

Reality had no gears, and you never knew what surprises would come spinning out of its chaos.

They walked with a pedatory grace.... one of them ripped off their hood and said, "my name is Tally Youngblood and is a special circumstance".

She wasn't here to gawk. She was an infiltrator, a sneak, an ugly. And she had a mission.

We needed to become world-famous soon, while there was still that kind of world to be famous in.

It's amazing how quickly nature consumes human places after we turn our backs on them. Life is a hungry thing.

Let me get this stright, Aya-Chan. You want me, a person who can't lie, to lie about the fact that I can't lie?" -Frizz mizuno