Jackaby (Jackaby, #1)

by William Ritter

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.”

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.”

I wondered which was sadder, leaving someone to cry after you when you were gone, or not having anyone who would miss you in the first place.