“Your demons are always with you," Skale answered. His voice seemed even raspier than the day before. "Don't you understand that by now? Always with you, impossible to escape. But you never can guess how they might manifest themselves.”
“Who knows the true definition of real?”
“For the first time in his life, Michael understood why real soldiers coming back from real wars often had a hard time getting over the things they'd seen and done. And had done to them. If Michael had a soul, it was starting to leak out of his hopes.”
“My name is Kaine,' it said. 'And I see all.”
“You have a gift for making a compliment sound like an insult.”
“A knife is a godsend to the man tied in ropes, death to the man in chains.”
“He let out a short laugh. "You sound like Sherlock Holmes. You gonna pull out a magnifying glass? A pipe, maybe?”
“Everything is relative.” The man didn’t move a muscle as he spoke. “A knife is a godsend to the man tied in ropes, death to the man in chains.”
“It’s like we’re on the moon,” Sarah whispered. Michael squeezed her elbow. “Except that we can breathe, there are no stars, and there’s still gravity.” “Yeah, other than that, it’s like we’re on the moon.”
“Nothing like a good friend to toss you down a flight of stairs.”
“Hey, back to me, guys. I’m supposed to be traumatized, and you’re supposed to be making me feel better. So far, you suck at it.”
“And despite the fact that they all had their eyes open, every one of them looked dead.”
“Michael literally couldn’t remember the last time he had seen his parents.”
“I’d love to see a cheeseburger right about now, though.”
“Hey, buddy, you suck at suicide negotiations.”
“Oddly, one of the first thoughts that popped into Michael’s mind was why didn’t these animals mind cooking their friends? Though maybe geese and chickens weren’t on the same social level.”
“A strange thing happened to me as I walked away from Jane's house--I was finally thinking clearly. I could see what Charlotte meant. Jane knew how to fix people. Now that I'd talked through some of my issues, I'd blown out the dust and garbage out of my brain and I could think for once. I could smell the rain, heavy with iron. The cold woke me, but it didn't sting. My breath puffed out in front of me in a great white plume, and I laughed. It was like I was breathing ghosts. I wasn't in the land of long highways and big box stores and humid, endless summers. I was in London, a city of stone and rain and magic. I understood, for instance, why they liked red so much. The red buses, telephone booths, and postboxes were a violent shock against the grays of the sky and stone. Red was blood and beating hearts.
And I was strong.”
“We are the ones who create the messes in our heads. It does not come from outside.”
“I just look at it as ‘What grades do I need to get where I want to go?”
“A day in a man’s life is constructed according to whether he accepts or rejects flashes of inspiration.”
“Necessity is often the mother of balls”
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