“Whos happy? Happy is just what people think they are when they cant find anything to bitch about.”

“Lucius didnt believe in werewolves. He said that people were too horrible for any other monsters to exist, which he thought was a shame.”

“He mentioned the connection between us. He identified with me. These are the things that many people want to hear, that most normal people want to be able to truthfully say, but almost no one can.”

“There are no mirrors of any kind in here. If there were, Id want to smash them, but I wouldnt. Instead, Id probably just stare at them, giving myself negative affirmations.”

“I know that mirrors give us a false sense of confidence. I continued. The reflection that we see everyday has nothing to do with how others see us. The glass lies.”

“The counselor says that with more time and more surgeries, I will begin to feel normal again. She says this with a mouth that can still smile. Its so easy to be reassuring when you have lips.”

“This essay is intended to serve as a reminder that immense and threatening divisions in mankind can spring from differences between virtues as well as from envies and greeds. When the virtues on ea...”

“Love' is the only weapon I have, I will defend with love, I will attack with love.”

“Kate faced the crowd. They were just eyes and teeth to her, just spit and voices. It was a moment, even, before they became people: a man with one blind eye, another whose neck was thick with lumps...”

“The only calibration that counts is how much heart people invest, how much they ignore their fears of being hurt or caught out or humiliated. And the only thing people regret is that they didn't li...”

“I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.”

“Fear is all in the mind”

“Nostalgia can be more painful than a surgeon's knife.”

“...good words - that triumphalism of positivity- but life will claw and eat you - chew you over and over - if you carry such a small knife ...”

“Sometimes I wished I could cut away old memories and let the wind take them. If a sharp knife could pare away the weakness of those days, I would slice until nothing but the hard lessons remained.”