“If you were left alone, you'd hate it. Loneliness gets old in a hurry”

“When you had no one to vent to, everything stayed inside and festered like old meat in a hot fridge.”

“Even if you were Hannibal Lecter himself, around here you're nothing special.”

“How did you get out of the suicide door?" Her disbelief was a living, pettable thing."Magic."Her eyes narrowed. "There is no magic.""Maybe not for you. But I'm from out of town.”

“The rain echoed in the shadowy attic space and made me feel small and fragile, like a lace glove left behind on moving day - mateless and abandoned.”

“Holding on to a four-year-old boy wasn't weird, as it should have been. It was comforting. Like holding an incredibly sticky teddy bear.”

“Love is a trap. Don't ever get caught.”