You're nothing more than a common bully,' he whispered, voice trembling. I'd shaken him for good now, and it was deeper than just the physical side, my knuckles bruising his throat and his back arching for all his so-called defiance.'I don't care what I am, so long as you're afraid of me.

You couldn't wake someone when his own dreams turned out better than reality.

Funny what one's willing to do for family, isn't it?' Fan said, pulse pounding like a jackrabbit's. 'I take no pleasure in saying this, but we aren't as different as I thought.''Don't be so fucking sentimental,' I told him, and the blood was already flowing when Thom shouted.

He was goin' on four and he used to eat fireflies. I don't know. I think he thought they'd make him glow.

This ain't beauty,' Rook said, and spat savagely- grossly- downwind. "Just some nasty shadows masquerading.

Contentment is quite a different thing from pleasure.

Don't worry,' my girl said, 'I'll teach you to outwit pity.