“Nightmares exist outside of logic, and there's little fun to be had in explanations; they're antithetical to the poetry of fear.”

“Explanations are such cheap poetry.”

“That's not such a bad thing,' he said to me. 'In nightmares we can think the worst. That's what they're for, I guess.”

“If there's to be damnation, she had said, let it be of my choosing, not theirs. He knew a little about damnation himself… and he had an idea that the lessons, far from being done, were just beginning.”

“There's precious little reform in the human race.”

“This was a fact so simple that it defied logic. It bypassed logic.”

“She had always consciously or unconsciously formed fear into a simple equation: fears = unknown.”