“I've spent the last decade learning to stand firm and face my problems… or at least batter them until they're unrecognizable.”

“...It isn't the problems along the way that make us or break us. It's how we learn to stand and face them that makes the difference.”

“Was it two or one dead face? Would you notice that at last? We are together and alone, until the firm and angry blast.”

“Also, I've spent an entire week without reading any books or talking about them too loudly. I'm learning to work my apparat's screen, the colourful pulsating mosaic of it, the fact that it knows every last stinking detail about the world, whereas my books only know the minds of their authors.”

“...now I'm a spent firework; but at least I've been a firework.”

“I blame Doctor Who. Mr Spock. The Scooby Gang: both the ones in the Mystery Machine and the ones with the stakes. I've spent my life with stories of people who don't walk away, who go back for their friends, who make that last stand. I've been brainwashed by Samwise Gamgee.”