“He laughed. I suddenly wanted to laugh, to laugh with him, to sit here, or maybe outside in the rain, and just laugh with him. But I couldn’t. I couldn’t even smile.”

“It didn’t rain for you, maybe, but it always rains for me. The sky shatters and rains shards of glass.”

“I walked around Soho's street for over an hour, running into familiar faces but never once stopping to chat. It was then that I felt something discomforting and comforting all at once. I didn't want to be here, in this city, anymore.”

“When I stop at a stop sign, I don’t think about the distance I’ve crossed. I just wish I never had to stop.”

“Cowards, I believe, are people who are afraid to embrace what they want or need in a natural, honest way.”

“He's trying not to laugh. I tell him I would have doomed mankind for him, and he's trying not to laugh.”

“I doubt she likes the idea of seeing him put back in a cage.” “Maybe not,” he said. “But she knows that the Authority are the only people who might be able to help him.” “Or kill him,” I said. “That too. What is life without risk?” “Long?” Terric laughed, a sort of high whooping that made me—and Zayvion, much to my surprise—smile. Contagious. For all he had a serious exterior, Terric was the guy you’d want to sit next to at a funny movie, just to hear him laugh.”