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

“You're like a doll I had when I was a kid. She was all stiched together and her head kept falling off, but I loved that doll. That's what you look like. Like somebody just loved you to death.”

“Real monsters eat you from the inside out.”

“If I had the power to resurrect, I'd use it on you." Now he was the one whispering. "There's an important part of you that's dead: the part that cares.”

“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.”

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

“I wear my cool on the inside; that's why my hands are always so cold.”