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

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

“12th June 1942: I hope I will be able to confide everything to you, as I have never been able to confide in anyone, and I hope you will be a great source of comfort and support.”

"Late in the winter of my seventeenth year, my mother decided I was depressed, presumably because I rarely left the house, spent quite a lot of time in bed, read the same book over and over, ate infrequently, and devoted quite a bit of my a

"I am Mary Iris Malone, and I am not okay."

"First the colors. Then the humans. That's usually how I see things. Or at least, how I try."

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

“I had just come to accept that my life would be ordinary when extraordinary things began to happen.”

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

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

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

"I was seventeen years old when I saw my first dead body."

"I have no idea how to write this stupid book."