“I was watching him crawl,Back over the wall-!Then bang! Crash!And the lightning flash!And- well, that's another story,Never mind-Anyway...”

“Or has your dad changed his mind about that?" Alex sneered. "My father never changes his mind." "Oh, that's right. Your dad's the sort who'll bang his head into a brick wall over and over, convinced the wall will eventually collapse. But it isn't the bricks that are going to cave in, Alex. Fortunately you seem to have avoided that particular character flaw - you're messed up in an entirely different way.”

“I could feel someone watching me. Eyes boring a hole in the back of my neck, crawling over my skin.”

“To see him act is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning.”

“Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates.”

“Another time, another place, I'd back you to that wall right there, or any place you wanted to go, and do everything in my power to wipe him from your mind.”