“There's nothing I like better than a good book discussion with someone who can hold up his end of the argument.”

“The things of the world fell by the wayside . . . but literature was eternal.”

“Go with your bad self.”

“I knew there were no ghosts in there, but on the other hand, what if there were?”

“He kept seeing the brains dribbling down the wallpaper. It wasnt the killing that stayed on his mind, it was the spilled talent. A lifetime of honing and shaping torn apart in less than a second. A...”

“I was covered in gore, dripping in slime, and in a very bad mood.”

“The way Id put it, said Makin, is that Rike cant make an omelet without wading thigh deep in the blood of chickens and wearing their entrails as a necklace.”

“Mere grimness is as easy as grinning; but it requires something to put a handsome face on a story. Narratives become of suspicious merit in proportion as they lean to Newgate-like offenses, particu...”

“I do not love men: I love what devours them.”

“Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.”

“Part of his mind was screaming, but it was a distant one and easy to ignore.”