Night

“…There's a great big hole in the middle of me, and no matter how hard I try, I can't fill it. I try to keep the awful, empty sadness out, but it keeps coming back in...”
― Libba Bray, Before the Devil Breaks You

“You know who's getting hurt? Workers. Poor people. Immigrants. Every day. It's a rigged game, Evie. The people at the top say they believe in the people at the bottom until those people try to climb up. And then the people at the top step on the hands of the climbing people they claim to believe in and cast them down the ladder.”
― Libba Bray, Before the Devil Breaks You

“I can sometimes influence a person inside a dream," Henry added. "For instance, if someone were having a nightmare, I might say, 'Why don't you dream about clowns instead?'"
"Clowns are your cure for a nightmare?" Evie said from the couch, where she lay half-sprawled again, legs crossed, one leg kicking out and back. "Never, ever say that to me inside one of my dreams, Henry. Promise me," She shivered. "Clowns.”
― Libba Bray, Before the Devil Breaks You

“Mabel's parents had said that it was bigotry dressed up to look like science.”
― Libba Bray, Before the Devil Breaks You