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'Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust? God in pity made man beautiful and alluring, after his own image; but my form is a filthy type of your’s, more horrid from its very resemblance. Satan had his companions, fellow-devils, to admire and encourage him; but I am solitary and detested.'

-pg. 118

"I did not know how to deal with this sort of death, the one that comes slow and inevitable and doesn't let go. I am a soldier. I deal in cannonballs and rifle shots. I understand how a wound can fester and kill a soldier, but there is still the initial wound, something that can be avoided with a little skill and a great deal of luck. Death that simply comes and settles is not a thing I had any experience with." pg20

"I have a heart, says science, but I am a monster, says society...
But sometimes I think - sometimes I wonder - if I were a monster surely, I would feel it by now? I would feel angry and vicious and vengeful. I'd know blind rage and blood lust and a need for vindication. Instead I feel an abyss within me that's so deep, so dark I can't see within it; I can't see what it holds." (pg. 241)

"Loneliness is an old friend stand beside you in the mirror, looking you in the eye, challenging you to live your life without it. You can't find the words to fight yourself, to fight the words screaming that you're not enough never enough never ever enough.
Loneliness is a bitter, wretched companion.
Sometimes it just won't let go." (Pg. 110)

"Light a candle for me, I used to whisper to no one.
Someone.
Anyone.
If you’re out there.
Please tell me you can feel this fire." (Pg. 99)

"I've come to believe that the most dangerous man in the world is the one who feels no remorse. The one who never apologizes and therefore seeks no forgiveness. Because in the end it is our emotions that make us weak, not our actions." (Pg. 82)

"Sometimes I wish I could step outside of myself for a while. I want to leave this worn body behind, but my chains are too many, my weights too heavy. This life is all that's left to me." (Pg. 10)

"All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart." (Pg. 69)

"Hate looks like everybody else until it smiles. Until it spins around and lies with lips and teeth carved into semblance of something too passive to punch." (Pg. 73)

"I LIKE CHARLIE SPRING! IN A ROMANTIC WAY NOT JUST A FROEND WAY!"

"It would take me years to figure out that life doesn't get easier simply because it gets more glamorous. But you couldn't have told me that when I was fourteen."
(Pg. 44)

"'Enough,' said Victor. Behind his eyes, the dial turned up. Eli screamed.
'You aren't some avenging angel, Eli,' he said. 'You're not blessed, or divine, or burdened. You're a science experiment.'"
(Pg. 353)

"He wanted to care, he wanted to cate so badly, but there was this gap between what he felt and what he wanted to feel, a space where something important had been carved out. And it was growing. He'd told Victor the thing he lost was his fear but that wasn't quite true because he was still scared.
He was scared of that rift."
(Pg. 204)

"The paper called Eli a hero.
The word made Victor laugh. Not just because it was absurd, but it posed a question. If Eli really was a hero, and Victor meant to stop him, did that make him a villian?
He took a lon si of his drink, tipped his head backagainst the couch, and decided he could live with that."
(Pg. 91)

"These violent delights have violent ends."