“One summer night I fell asleep, hoping the world would be different when I woke.”

"I don't know a lot of things."

"There were things Dillard Wayne Early Jr. dreaded more than the start of school at Forrestville High."

"I've been locked up for 264 days."

"I've watched through his eyes, I've listened through his ears, and I tell you he's the one. Or at least as close as we're going to get."

"Prague, early May. The sky weighed gray over fairy-tale rooftops, and all the world was watching."

"Joost had two problems: the moon and his mustache."

“The rain poured down on London so hard that it seemed that it was dancing spray, every raindrop contending with its fellows for supremacy in the air and waiting to splash down.”

“Looking back, none of this would have happened if I’d brought lip gloss the night of the Homecoming Dance.”

“The demon exploded in a shower of ichor and guts.”

“They say that just before you die your whole life flashes before your eyes, but that’s not how it happened for me.”

“Today was the day a thousand dreams would die and a single dream would be born.”

“It’s midnight, it’s sweltering, and I might be high on Vicodin, but that guy—that guy right over there—that’s him. The him.”