Nobody gets through life without losing a few things on the way.

“I thought about adults. I wondered if that was true: if they were all really ch…”

“You musn’t be afraid of the dark.’‘I’m not,’ said Shadow. ‘I’m afraid of the pe…”

“He..." Richard began. "The marquis. Well, you know, to be honest, he seems a li…”

“Metaphors failed him, then. He had gone beyond the world of metaphor and simile…”