"I’m not here to judge; I’m here to exploit."

"Mysteries within mysteries. Buried alive by secrets. Suffocated by masks and crushed by costumes. But now, everything’s coming up corpses."

"The world will change without you, boy."

"If you don’t know where I’ve been, you won’t understand where I’m going."

"For the love of Nyx, can’t anyone be a proper introvert these days? At this rate, I’ll need to escape to Jupiter for quiet. Too bad we’re more focused on retweets than rockets."

"I’ve hollowed out, replaced passion with practicality. I’m the empty shell that plagued my earliest nightmares."

"When I do sleep, my dreams are adult dreams. Not in the sexy way, but in the realistic way. No flying or magic or impossibilities. Only short, sensible responsibilities. I used to move worlds in my dreams, but now, I buy groceries. It’s depressing."

"Some things never change, but most things must."

"I fall—no, plummet—as everything I buried rises to tempt me, mock me, tear off my facades and reveal my raw, vulnerable core."

"By gaining what I always wanted, I’m losing what I took for granted."