“She took a deep breath. "Let me begin again." If this girl wanted to play ball in front of her department head, Christine would bring it. She closed her eyes and accessed the most expensive Philo D...”

“When am I going to learn to stop questioning authority and just eat the Soylent Green?”

“He was six years old this time, and ancient.”

“He looked up at the round, stained glass window in front of him, a blurred kaleidoscope backlit in the morning sun. It glowed. The color of heaven. Of her hair. He sat back and cracked open the dry...”

“Oh, I love you, June, I really do. It's just that you sounded so...twat-ish just then.”

“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.”

“I stand before her, meeting her eye to eye and nose to nose. My head takes a slight bow as I clench my fist. I should have just killed you like any other bloodsucking vampire.So why didnt you? She ...”

“War is a monster. War is the devil. It starts and it consumes and it grows and grows. And otherwise normal men become monsters, too.”

“Maybe becoming a monster is a sign of strength.”

“Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.”

“As time and space are bent by gravity, so too is truth bent by power.”

“What a curious power words have.”