" Q did his disappearing act again, turning music so loud, lyrics corroded my fierce decision to leave. French laments full of regret and self-loathing throbbed through the speakers:
 
 
Mes besoins sont ma défaite. Je suis un monstre dans une peau humaine.
My needs are my downfall. I’m a monster in human skin.
 
I hated the songs. Soft songs made Q seem human, living with mistakes and anguish, just like the rest of us. I preferred the raging songs. Ones with a heavy beat, heating my blood, filling me with energy to escape.
 
 
Et je vais prendre ce que je veux et payer mon propre désir. Cauchemars de ma solitude. L'obscurité pour un ami.
And I'll take what I want and pay for my own desires. Nightmares for my loneliness. The darkness for a friend. "

― Pepper Winters , Tears of Tess (Monsters in the Dark, #1)