

“It was a light that shone over our faces, our wounds and scars. It was a light so brilliant and white it could have been beamed from heaven, and Brian and I could have been angels, basking in it. But it wasn’t, and we weren’t.”
― Mysterious Skin
― Mysterious Skin

“He spoke so slowly, cobwebs could have formed between his words.”
― Mysterious Skin
― Mysterious Skin

“Everybody is a book of blood; wherever we're opened, we're red.”
― Books of Blood: Volumes One to Three
― Books of Blood: Volumes One to Three

“Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.”
― Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War
― Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War

“The room was darker and smelled of evergreen, as though my mother had been dreaming of trees.”
― We Disappear
― We Disappear
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