“You were picking up the vibes off a guy who was supposed to be alive and scaring us, but who was—is—dead and scaring us?”

“It watched the strangers with not-eyes. A dead view of the world created by memory and lifeglow.”

“Mist devils spun in the air, dispersed then reassembled, gyrating above the ground, vapor-gamboling.”

“What up Brit-Boy?""I was just wondering," he said,"about the significance of your canine collar."Why was the collar such a big deal? Back home, half the girls wore them. "It was a gift from someone with twice the cojones you have."He raised his eyebrows. "You only have the data to validate half of that statement," he said, letting his legs fall apart and glancing downward. "But that could be corrected.”

“We’re all allowed to be scared and pee in our pans once in a while.”

“What if she was meant to be, or could have been, someone important in my life? I think that's what scares me: the randomness of everything. That the people who could be important to you might just pass you by. Or you pass them by. How do you know...I felt that by walking away I was abandoning [them], that I spent my entire life, day after day, abandoning people.”

“Music is undescribable, and no words can be said to understand it. The only way to understand it is to hear it.”