Extraits

He showed his hand, which was missing a finger. "Chopped it off while working late at night one day because I was getting sleepy."

"Ouch." Tom stepped back from the missing finger. "What did you do with the finger?"

"Shoved it into the carrot soup. Looked like a paler carrot, but did the job"

"I need this to be mentioned in Guinness World Records," the Pillar says. "Having managed to escape with a horse that only runs in L-shapes."

“The world is full of good guys trying to fix it, always faltering when it’s time to pull the trigger, because they have no bad side in them. You’re not like them, Alice. You’re perfect. A good person who was once bad. If you can only find the balance inside, you will save this world.”

“We all have good and evil inside us. It comes and goes. Some of us dip our heads too far in the dark, and some only have snippets of bad thoughts clouding our heads from time to time. For instance, it may cross your mind to pull down the window and verbally abuse the reckless driver next to you in a rare episode of road rage. But it just subsides and you don’t give in to it, once you remind yourself that being good is a choice, not a gene.”

“The idea of killing people you have never met before because they’re wearing a different uniform baffles me."