“I thought living dead girls couldn't feel pain, thought I was emptied out but I'm not, I'm not.”

“I'm fucking the grave, I thought, I'm bringing the dead back to life...”

“She looked at me with those empty eyes, and I thought, I'm going to make sure I fill them up with something.”

“TODD!" I yell again and I reach him and his Noise opens even farther and wraps around me like a blanket and I'm grabbing him to me, grabbing him to me like I'll never let him go and he calls out in pain but his other arm is grabbing me back - "I thought you were dead," he's saying, his breath on my neck. "I thought you were dead.""Todd," I say and I'm crying and the only thing I can say is his name. "Todd.”

“I have a boyfriend who's a ghost, I thought. Of course I'm living in a dreamworld.”

“And the thought of that makes me want to open a vein, experience pain, know I'm alive, despite this living death.”