“Munro stood in the doorway, watching the two faeries peer into his fridge as thought it was the strangest thing they'd ever seen.”
“I just stood there staring, because while I've seen a lot of weird things, I hadn't ever seen that.”
“I stood there in the shadowed doorway thinking with my tears. Yes, tears can be thoughts, why not?”
“If my thought-dreams could be seen/ They'd probably put my head in a guillotine.”
“Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.”
“He decided there was no point in telling her he'd looked in the fridge and seen none of these things. There'd just be some variation of his mother's standard crack about Male Refrigeration Blindness Syndrome.”