The one villain that kept me awake for days when I saw it as a kid. You want a fight? Then, as she put it, fight all the powers of hell.

WHEN I arrived at school, I prayed I wouldn’t see him while looking everywhere trying to see him.

Home is the prison you always return to.

The only thing worse than being whaled on by your drunken old man is waiting for your old man to beat you.

Lust is a lot like a slow brained dog. It slobbers a lot and jumps up on people at the most inopportune time.

There are more people on this planet who will be nice to you than won’t,” I said, ignoring my aching face. “The only difference is the ones who are loud and obnoxious are the only ones we tend to see. The hatred and seething fury gets all the press, while the quiet acceptance seems to fade into the background.

For Kyle, thinking can just end up being destructive. It’s like he was always playing chess in his mind against himself for stakes that were so high they were damned frightening.

I realized I had moved from being a misfit in a culture I wasn’t a part of, to being a freak in a culture I was supposed to be in.

You, sir, are a twat.

Every time I had dared to hope for something in my life, it seemed that fate, like a small, angry child, went out of its way to make sure I not only didn't get it but was instead rewarded with the exact opposite.