“Youre injured. He flicks his chin at my bleeding leg.We need to get that cleaned up.Itll be fine, I wave it off. My mom will descend upon me with a bottle ofperoxide the second I hit the door.”

“Hes close enough now that I can hear his footfall on the pavement, and I knowmy chances of outrunning him are slim. Im practically in a full sprint, and mypounding heart is begging me to take it do...”

“As one of the little streams starts snaking my way, inching closer to the toe of my shoe, I hop over the spreading puddle and out of its reach. I dont look back to see if its going to follow me. Im...”

“All kidding aside I focus back on Pyke, genuine sincerity in my tone.Thank youfor everything. For dragging my clueless ass through the ocean, andover hill and vale, when you knew it was futile and ...”

“Fair enoughNo inhaling battery acid, I smirk. We cant breathe batteryacid, can we?”

“You scared the crap out of me, I shove his bare chest with a growl. Wasthat you at the front door?Ya think? He fires back with a raise of his eyebrows, taking hold of my armagain, as he practically...”

“Youre injured. He flicks his chin at my bleeding leg.We need to get that cleaned up.Itll be fine, I wave it off. My mom will descend upon me with a bottle ofperoxide the second I hit the door.”

“work at our responsibility as parents as if everything in life counted on it, because in fact everything in life does count on it.”

“Happiness [is] only real when shared”

“That's what people do who love you. They put their arms around you and love you when you're not so lovable.”

“Sibyl, what do you want?I want to live, the Sibyl said, and her voice rang rich and full. I want to keep on living forever and watching heroes and fools and knights go up and down, into the world a...”

“When God is driven to the periphery of the public square, the human spiritual capacity longs for exercise, and it often finds it in the suspension of disbelief and activity of the imagination that ...”

“When is a monster not a monster? Oh, when you love it.”