Kill if you will, but command me nothing!

Clear communication between selves - the surface self and the deep self - is the enemy of self-doubt. It slays confusion.

... suicide gets in the air sometimes. Like a cold germ.

My mother was a reader, and she read to us. She read us Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde when I was six and my brother was eight; I never forgot it.

Alone. Yes, that's the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn't hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym.

Eddie discovered one of his childhood's great truths. Grownups are the real monsters, he thought.

where the world ends is where you must begin