“There's a hero in every heart waiting for the dragon to come out.”

“Could there be irony crueler than this? How, upon his rescue, the truth had brought him here, to a house for the mad, for only a madman believes what every child knows to be true: There are monsters that lie in wait under our beds.”

“Perhaps God waits for us to be empty, so he may fill us with himself.”

“My heart ached for the snow.”

“It isn't up to me to break his heart; that's time's job.”

“You could see the smile coming a year before it arrived.”

“But monsters, I now know, come in all shapes and sizes, and only their appetite for human flesh defines them.”