“What's the point of not taking chances? I don't know if I could stand living my whole life afraid.”

“I don't know what I expected.No, I'm lying. I know what I wanted.”

“Sometimes you don't know what you need until it's gone”

“It was that stages-of-anger thing. I was shocked and then I got pissed and then I fought like hell … and then I went numb. They called it acceptance, but it wasn’t. It’s what happens when you have only two choices: live with the monster, or kill yourself.”

“This Army of Light was mine. I had summoned it. I had DRAWN it.Could I have stopped it? I don't know.The truth is, I didn't want to.”

“I didn't throw the paper away.Maybe I should have.Oh, the things you know in retrospect.”

“I doubted I would need my eyes. I drew in the dark, after all.”