“I hope it's the good kind of dilemma," Reginald broke Patricia's reverie. "Whatever one you're on the horns of."..."I was just thinking," she said. "There are so many scary problems in the world. L...”

“Do you think the occasional witch burning helps to weld society together?”

“A society that has to burn witches to hold itself together is a society that has already failed, and just doesn't know it yet.”

“When the world turns chaotic, we must be the better part of chaos.”

“Why would anybody be a Satanist, anyway? I dont get it. You cant believe in Satan without believing in God, and then youre just picking the wrong side in a big mythic battle thing.”

“Self-awareness paradoxically requires an awareness of the other.”

“Rage wrapped itself around her like a tourniquet, keeping her alive even as it condemned a part of her to atrophy.”

“But sometimes shame is a more powerful engine than rage. Like rage, it burns hot; and like rage it tends to consume its own furnace.”

“The abandoned infant's cry is rage, not fear.”

“[She] had heard it said that there was only one emotion which, in recollection, was capable of resurrecting the full immediacy and power of the originalone emotion that time could never fade, and t...”

“In my view, suicide is not really a wish for life to end.'What is it then?'It is the only way a powerless person can find to make everybody else look away from his shame. The wish is not to die, bu...”

“I know how soon youth would fade and bloom perish, if, in the cup of bliss offered, but one dreg of shame, or one flavour of remorse were detected; and I do not want sacrifice, sorrow, dissolution ...”