I said that without love, there could also be no hate: without hate, no violence. Hate isn't the most dangerous thing, he'd said. Indifference is.

“Out of control- thats what it was, that's what I hated.”

“What does it feel like to be infected?""I-- I can't describe it." I force the w…”

“That is what Alex is now: a shadow-boy”

“Something aches at the very core of me, something ancient and deep and stronger…”