I was not happy as a child, although from time to time I was content. I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.

“He wondered whether home was a thing that happened to a place after a while, or…”

“Take one, and you cannot take the other," she said. "But neither path is safe. …”

“She was also an adult, and when adults fight children, adults always win.”

“Tastes like a drunken diabetic's piss,' agreed Wednesday. 'I hate the stuff.”