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What's the point of not taking chances? I don't know if I could stand living my whole life afraid.

The grief in her green eyes slips then hardens and, for an instant, Pendleton sees the woman she has become and has no right being, not at sixteen.

We were like matching bookends, almost touching but with volumes between us and stories, so many stories.

Monster or not, he was risking his neck to save her.

She'd drawn the moment of her death.
No. NO. She'd DRAWN herself to death.

Run, she told herself. Run, you idiot, run.
But she didn't. She couldn't. She just ... couldn't.

We all have our fictions, little lies we tell ourselves to keep going from one day to the next.

Sometimes you don't know what you need until it's gone

She said all writers were prima donnas, drunks, social misfits, pompous, or depressed. Brilliant, maybe, but completely crazy.

My English teacher said that a writer is the worst judge of his own work.

Tell yourself you're dead, the way Matt does, so the past can't hurt you.

How people react is going to be based on how you react.

Those brain-zapped kids weren't the only - or maybe even the worst - enemy.

But sticking to rules just because they're there does not make them right. You need to learn when the rules should be broken.

What about study hall? Shouldn't I go to the library?
"What for, Ms. Lord?" Mr. anderson said. "You're with me

She's got the kind of ethereal, unselfconscious beauty some young girls possess that breaks your heart. Or theirs.

I didn't throw the paper away.
Maybe I should have.
Oh, the things you know in retrospect.

Desire is so much sweeter when you cant have it.

I am a ghost in a land of phantoms and forgotten nightmares.

This Army of Light was mine. I had summoned it. I had DRAWN it.
Could I have stopped it? I don't know.
The truth is, I didn't want to.

I am a ghost in a land of phantoms and remembered nightmares.

Dewerman was this bearded 1960's throwback: a Teletubby in tie-dye, suspenders, and thinning hair scraped back into a stringy gray rat.

I don't know what I expected.
No, I'm lying. I know what I wanted.

Neither was evil. They were both true to who they are.

They call it the drowning instinct. It's when drowning doesn't look like drowning. (pg. 241)

This is a fairy tale with teeth and claws.

No one can help but stare at the monster, because horror is a cousin to awe.

I gargled a laugh, but I'd never felt more like crying in my life. I'm fine.

Follow your heart. Just don't get lost.

I doubted I would need my eyes. I drew in the dark, after all.

I think. I sense. I wonder.

Honestly, Bob: how do you carve a scream?

The familiar was usually invisible; how many people really noticed everything they saw?

So I need the story, Jenna. I need the truth.
Right, like the two are the same thing.

Don't get so caught up in looking behind you forget to look ahead.

What you couldn't see and only imagined was always scarier than what was real.

Not everyone wears their scars on their skin.

You really didn't appreciate how thick, how powerful water was until you had to fight it.

The things you think about when you're a hair's breath away from getting yourself killed.