Don't turn over the rocks if you don't want to see the pale creatures who live under them.

We tried not to be in the same room at the same time when Starr was home, we set the air on fire between us.

Never let a man stay the night,” she told me. “Dawn has a way of casting a pall on any night magic.

...and I thought, there was no God, there was only what you wanted.

The question of good and the nature of evil will always be one of philosophy’s most intriguing problems, up there with the problem of existence itself. If evil means to be self-motivated, to be the center of one’s own universe, to live on one’s own terms, then every artist, thinker, every original mind, is evil. Because we dare to look through our own eyes rather than mouth clichés lent us from the so-called Fathers. To dare to see is to steal fire from the Gods. This is mankind’s destiny, the engine which fuels us as a race.

I almost said, you’re not broken, you’re just going through something. But I couldn’t. She knew. There was something terribly wrong with her, all the way inside. She was like a big diamond with a dead spot in the middle. I was supposed to breathe life into that dead spot, but it hadn’t worked.