You’re as old as the land and you’ve never heard of sarcasm?” Conor asked.
<i>Oh, I have heard of it,</i> the monster said, putting its huge branch hands on its hips. <i>But people usually know better than to speak it to me.</i>

"Ah, well, then you've never stood on a beach as the waves came crashing in, the water stretching out from you until it's beyond sight, moving and blue and alive and so much bigger than even the black beyond seems because the ocean hides what it contains." She shakes her head in a happy way. "If you ever want to see how small you are in the plan of God, just stand at the edge of an ocean."

If the world wants you, it's gonna keep on coming till it gets you. And who am I that can fix it? Who am I that can change this if the world wants it so badly? Who am I to stop the end of the world if it keeps on coming?