I already felt like the freak of freaks without the added realization that I lacked the basic ability of communicating normally with other human beings.
Maybe we had just gotten too used to being alone – and maybe that needed to change.
You can destroy a factory, and they’ll build another. But once you destroy a life, that’s it. You never get that person back.
Clancy had taught me well.
Dear Dad, When you sent me to school that morning, I thought you loved me. But now I see you for what you are. You called me a monster and a freak. But you’re the one that raised me.
I closed my eyes. I forced myself to relax, to remember that here, now, and always, I was the predator.
Everyone needs reality to punch them in the face every once in a while. Keeps you on guard.
It was almost painful, I thought, to have a heart so swollen with gratitude and what must have been pure, untainted happiness. I wanted to live inside the feeling forever.
The most important thing you ever did was learn how to survive. Do not let anyone make you feel like you shouldn’t have.
Forgive yourself, but don’t forget.
But part of surviving is being able to move on.
The darkest minds never fade in the afterlight.
I used to dream about turning back time, about reclaiming the things I’d lost and the person I used to be.
Sometimes the darkness lives inside you, and sometimes it wins.
That was the Liam Stewart way of saying, Hi, darlin’, missed you something fierce.
Owain told me about the beautiful, fair-haired Vesta. It took me several minutes to work out that Vesta was a horse, and that Owain was possibly in love with her.
Ruby, I lied before. I would have run. – CG.
Everyone is just making the choices they think will help them get by.
I can’t make it fade.
I was just an okay person.
You are actually the worst person I have ever met.