Fantasy was always only a reality waiting to be switched on.

Innocence ain’t all it’s cracked up to be, you know. Innocent little kids rip the wings off flies, because they don’t know any better. That’s innocence.

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.

You loved me as hard as you knew how. I’d give anything to go back and love you better…