“Destiny is as it is. Nothing can change it. Accept it before it ruins you.”

“Her heart and soul had already spoken. They wouldnt let Lucas go.”

“Ill never turn her away, Clyde. Shes my mate. Ill protect her till my dying breath. Ill even swallow my pride and ask a favor as momentous as the one I just asked of a man who has done nothing but ...”

“If you love her as much as you claim you do, why cant you let her be happy? Shes made her choice, Lucas asked.Its because I love her that Im trying to protect her from you. I could give her a bette...”

“She smiled, content in knowing no one had ever loved her as much as Lucas, and now she knew why. Because no one could love her more, or better, than the demon king.”

“Oh God, he thought. Im sorry, I thought I heard you say to come in.I did.But youre only wearing a towel.What is it with you guys and towels? Its not like Im naked.”

“Men who fear demons see demons everywhere.”

“What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innume...”

“I suddenly realized. The zebra. It is not something outside of us. The zebra is something inside of us. Our fears. Our own self-destructive nature. The zebra is the worst part of us when we are fac...”

“Sibyl, what do you want?I want to live, the Sibyl said, and her voice rang rich and full. I want to keep on living forever and watching heroes and fools and knights go up and down, into the world a...”

“When God is driven to the periphery of the public square, the human spiritual capacity longs for exercise, and it often finds it in the suspension of disbelief and activity of the imagination that ...”

“When is a monster not a monster? Oh, when you love it.”