Shannon’s Reviews > Let Me In > Status Update

Oh, crap. The photo album.

Squirrel POV - now that's different.

The pronoun switching is confusing.

Gross gross gross.

"He stared at the doorbell. Things would not simply return to normal. Something big had to be done. Like running away, hitchhiking, making your way home in the middle of the night to show that it was ... important. What he was scared of was not that maybe she was a creature who survived by drinking other people's blood. No—it was that she might push him away."

"Everything was so different at night. The photo shop, florist, and clothing store in the station were dark. The ticket collector sat with his feet up on the counter, reading something. So quiet. The clock on the wall said a few minutes past two. He should be lying in bed now. Sleeping. Should at the very least be sleepy. But no. He was so tired his body felt hollow, but it was a hollowness filled with electricity."

"A school of hysterically wriggling little fish now filled her circulatory system. She could neither lie down, nor sit, nor stand. She walked around and around the apartment, scratched at her body, took a cold shower to dampen the jumpy, tingling feeling. Nothing helped. It defied description." The strangest thing ... I've felt this before. It's bizarre how he can describe sensations like this.

"But magic ... surely there was a little magic in the world. The people who denied the existence of magic, they were the ones that it went badly for."

"Jealousy was a fat, chalk-white snake in his chest. It writhed slowly, as pure as innocence and childishly plain. Replaceable. He was ... replaceable."