“Sometimes it's better not to look back.”

“Sometimes you just need to go through a door.”

“I slammed out of the [house] and started walking, heading nowhere in particular. Sometimes you just need to go through a door.”

“It's easy to say you don't care about money when you have plenty of it.”

“Weatherman says," Kev scoffed. "I wouldn't trust that silly bugger to know it's raining now.”

“Besides, there was the way she beamed at me, smiling with her whole self, and how a coy gesture like tucking her hair back could make me want to follow her, help her, do anything she asked. I was hopelessly outmatched.”

“But these weren't the kind of monsters that had tentacles and rotting skin, the kind a seven-year-old might be able to wrap his mind around--they were monsters with human faces, in crisp uniforms, marching in lockstep, so banal you don't recognize them for what they are until it's too late.”