“Close your mouth,block off your senses,blunt your sharpness,untie your knots,soften your glare,settle your dust.This is the primal identity.”
“If you're at the end of your rope . . . untie the knot in your heart.”
“When your own life is threatened, your sense of empathy is blunted by a terrible, selfish hunger for survival.”
“Be yourself-- Matthew Clairmont. Complete with your sharp vampire teeth and your scary mother, your test tubes full of blood and your DNA, your infuriating bossiness and your maddening sense of smell.”
“When you close your mouth, your ears will be bigger!”
“When words come out of your mouth, do your ears just block all incoming sound waves?”