He wanted a toy, but he got a monster. If he doesn’t fear me today, he’ll fear me tomorrow.

I lived a hundred lives, saw a hundred more, experienced humanity in every form, in every fear.

That’s what the Roofers taught me. Don’t be afraid to live. Don’t be afraid to die.

Mortality is a gift—a fire under our asses to feel, to experience, to live. But as with all gifts, there is a catch, and the catch is the end, and the end is the gift.

Weak stomach, weak spirit.

We are not different, though you will deny it, of course. I am the key, and you are the door, but you are too scared to step inside.

We aren’t meant to live forever, but we are meant to die free.

I don’t count myself among these monsters. I am my own breed of beast.

As long as we are loved, we are never truly gone.