“I should start charging uncomfortable thoughts rent. Except what would they pay me in? Probably something even worse.”

“I was filled with dread at the thought my mind had skipped town and left me behind to pay the rent." --Dexter”

“They don't really pay attention to me, except when they need my blood or something. I wouldn't even be alive, if it wasn't for Kate being sick.”

“They tried not to stare, but they couldn't keep their eyes away. I was a freak now. I made people uncomfortable and not necessarily because of my scars-but because what my scars represented. Danger, fear, and the unknown. Something had had happened to me, something not even I could remember. They all probably thought that I was crazy, that I somehow did this to myself. I couldn't blame them. ow could I? They might be right.”

“I want something else. I'm not even sure what to call it anymore except I know it feels roomy and it's drenched in sunlight and it's weightless and I know it's not cheap. Probably not even real”

“For a moment he thought she was about to hit him, which would have been bad, or even start crying, which would have been much, much worse.”