The difference between childhood and adulthood, Vic had come to believe, was the difference between imagination and resignation. You traded one for the other and lost your way.

Don’t ever have children, Tyler, unless you’re ready to be afraid everyday for the rest of your life.

In a friendship, especially in a friendship between two young boys, you are allowed to inflict a certain amount of pain. This is even expected. But you must cause no serious injury; you must never,...

Terror is the desire to save your own ass, but horror is rooted in sympathy.

Eddie Carroll had just come in from outside, and read Noonan’s letter standing in the mudroom. He flipped to the beginning of the story. He stood reading for almost five minutes before noticing he was...

Already, though, she understood the difference between being a child and being an adult. The difference is when someone says he can keep the bad things away, a child believes him.

I mean, when the world comes for your children, with the knives out, it’s your job to stand in the way.

I think if you cheat in a ethics class then there’s really no hope for you.

He believed in his own decency with all his heart. So it was with every true monster, Vic supposed.