“I’m so far from lucky, I’m kissing its ass from the other side.”

“Cinderella never had it so good. All she got was a lousy coach and breakable shoes.”

“I felt less like Cinderella and more like used drywall. Perpetually screwed.”

“I tried to speak, to tell Kit I wasn't dead. No sound came out. But I managed to lift one arm a few inches and execute a tiny wave. Hello, still alive. In a fuck ton of pain, but not dead.”

“I encased my heart in stone so as to stop it from beating”

“...it's stupid to be that way, so easily hurt; it's better to be like a plank of wood, an emotional mule. It's best not to feel,...best to have your nerve endings cauterized.”

“Ready or not, here I comeI'm so tired of this dumb game of hide and seekOlly olly oxen freeShow yourself, you're scaring meCome out, come out, where ever you areYou've taken this thing way too far”