“Nowhere and oblivion were completely different things/places to Richard Stein. Forhim, oblivion is when something goes into nothing and nowhere is the place wheresomething can come out of nothing.”

“Closing your mind to religion is no different than the close-mindedness thatreligions can cause.”

“The Silence took your friend."Nobody says What’s the Silence?Satan Says, "It is a creature that came out of the walm. Large as a lake, this creature,but it’s not made of water. It is made of sound. And it feeds off of sound, or anythingthat makes sound, or anything that can hear sound. It will empty this entire world ofsound if we let it. It claims this side of town its territory. Anybody that’s out on the streetis at risk. It will eat anything that it hears and your friend must have been something itheard. He will never come back. Nobody ever escapes from the stomach of Silence.”

“When I say something like "back when I was in highschool," I usually mean: "back when I was supposed to be in high school.”

“I see her body as an arousing work of architecture. A sky-scraping building that I wouldn’t mind laying over a mountain to inject my whale-sized shank through its front entrance, knocking the doorman out of the way and flooding the lobby once I am finished with her.”

“Maybe I’m drunk right now, even though I don’t remember drinking anything.When I’m drunk, I say things without thinking. Drinking numbs you from your ability toreason. It makes you forget your own character and become a crazy. Maybe I am acrazy now; I’m going through so much chaos these days that reality is hard to grasp.”

“That is the moral of this story, kids. No matter how many people try to stomp on your happiness, you have the power to do whatever you want with your life.”