Jackaby (Jackaby, #1)

by William Ritter

“I have ceased concerning myself with how things look to others, Abigail Rook. I suggest you do the same. In my experience, others are generally wrong.”

I have a gift that is, as far as I have found, unique to me. It allows me to see truth where others see the illusion — and there are many illusions, so many masks and faÇades. All the world’s a stage, as they say, and I seem to have the only seat in the house with a view behind the curtain.

That the battles are usually in her head does not lessen the bravery of it. The hardest battles always are.”

“Monsters are easy, Miss Rook. They’re monsters. But a monster in a suit? That’s basically just a wicked man, and a wicked man is a more dangerous thing by far.”