“Most people create a destiny of minutiae, of the mundane. They create their own limitations. When the moment comes for them to stretch and leap, they find themselves boxed in, locked down by their ...”

“We fight monsters and unholy creatures for a living here. Grotesque, evil, violent, dangerous; theyre certainly all these things. And yet, we somehow manage to go to sleep each night and wake up ea...”

“Im in a secret underground hideout of a group of monster hunters, filled with magical totems, brass monkeys that move and enough firepower to take over a small country.”

“Telling someone like my mother that Hell is a real, physical place, somewhere you can travel to and from, would be like spray-painting the statue of Jesus hanging over the pulpit during mass. Bette...”

“I know you think I should be home taking care of my family. That maybe Id be distracted or I wouldnt be as committed as the rest of you, but whos more committed: the person with something to lose, ...”

“The things Ive seen," he continues easily, "have shown me that the only constant is change. Too much power in one place is a fools errand. Eventually, and inevitably, no matter how good the intenti...”

“I love Alice more than life itself, but I can't keep her hidden forever.”

“The Rangers were founded over one hundred and fifty years ago, in King Herbert's reign. Do you know anything about him?" Halt looked sideways at the boy sitting beside him, tossing the question out...”

“The glove suddenly feels much heavier, now, more dense. The rush of power didn’t come through me, but wrapped around me; invisible and strangely empty, like a purely mechanical force. It wasn’t lik...”

“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...”