“Soon he would be able to touch her, to feel the warmth of her blood. When the time came, nothing would stop him.”

“Smiles were rare in this house. Smiles had to be bought and paid for.”

“The best way of keeping a low profile was to immerse himself in the mundane. Act like them, talk like them. A smile, a joke was all it took - at least during the day. The night was his own.”

“I have to hurt other people in order to get what I want, I dont have a choice but to. In life, you gotta do the right things for the wrong reasons. Or the wrong things for the right reasons.”

“She had a face that had had lived a thousand stories and none with a happy ending.”

“It's only after you've lost everything that we're free to do anything.--Chuck Palahniuk”

“Sara, we have to go," she whispers, even though my dad isn't there to hear her. She's not crying. She's calm. Matter-of-fact. As if she's asking me whether I want mayo or mustard on my sandwich. Ex...”

“The sky is deep, the sky is dark. The light of the stars is o damn stark/When I look up, I fill with fear, if all we have is what lies here, this lonely world, this troubled place, then cold dead s...”

“It is said that in death, all things become clear.”