“In life one of Midnights favourite movies had been Its a Wonderful Life, a touching story where a man called George Bailey is shown how poor the world would have been if hed never existed, but now ...”

“Detective Inspector Eccles sighed. He may ordinarily have met his sigh with the question of why the newly appointed Superintendent Dickinson was turning up to this late hour crime scene, he may als...”

“For a more than miffed Midnight, fate was for emperors, fools and soppy lovers: - fate was the self-important egotism of those doing well, the sheer unbearable arrogance of the living and loved.”

“When people pose the question, are you coxom, Tom Conrad? I like to pose a question back at them: Is J.K. Rowling actually a witch? Is Thomas Harris the no. 1 serial killer in the the US, did Yann ...”

“I'm a struggling writer, I'm struggling to convince people I'm a writer.”

“Lust fades after climax, love lasts until breakfast!”

“Youre fearless.Draven laughed loudly and shook his head. Zarah frowned and crossed her arms over her chest.No, Im not. Trust me. Im scared all the time. You scare the living hell out of me.Her jaw ...”

“Get done with the damn sibling rivalry and let's get back with the task at hand here so we can figure out what we're going to do.”

“Zarah, you do know that we are supposed to be a graceful species, don't you?”

“Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around. You tell them things that youve never shared with another soul and they absorb everything you sa...”

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there i...”

“There is something relentless about the serenity of nature which has a crushing effect on the human mind. The lavish splendour of her phases, which completely ignores human strife, fills the race o...”

“Almost every day I can feel myself suffering mainly in the head, I can explain the pain to myself but knowing it comes from an inflammation of my imagination doesn't prevent it being reality itself...”

“I guess in this culture of ever-shortening attention spans, it's good if a song can lift us out of the madness, even if only for a few minutes.”