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

“When I walked into the room, I looked down to the floor and saw that each and every garment I owned had been pulled from its rightful place and had been meticulously sliced into countless pieces. O...”

“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.”

“To be of value to humanity, start by thinking for yourself.”

“Love is not an emotion. It is your very existence.”

“The General belonged to the learned type of military men who believed that liberal and humane views can be reconciled with their profession. But being by nature a kind and intelligent man, he soon ...”

“We never see other people anyway, only the monsters we make of them.”

“But these weren't the kind of monsters that had tentacles and rotting skin, the kind a seven-year-old might be able to wrap his mind around--they were monsters with human faces, in crisp uniforms, ...”

“You guys know about vampires? You know, vampires have no reflections in a mirror? Theres this idea that monsters dont have reflections in a mirror. And what Ive always thought isnt that monsters d...”

“I shiver, thinking how easy it is to be totally wrong about people-to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for the whole, to see the cause and think it's the effect or vice versa”

“At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear.”

“I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.”