“Just so you know, Ive trusted you since camp.”

“Just let me sleep," she grumbled. "Let me sleep, and I'll sign a paper that you're a fucking angel.”

“Growing up is hard, love. Otherwise everyone would do it.”

“You need to be clever to best him. Are you clever, Rach”

“Now youre going to get it, I said, guessing Al was coming when the ones in the back scattered. You should have been nice.With a weird cry, the closest surface demon fell back, but it was too late. ...”

“What would you think of an engineer who expounded the art of flying without revealing the secrets of the engine and propeller? That's what you do, you engineer of the human soul. Just that. You're ...”

“He thought he vomited out his soul. If ghosts were made of ectoplasm and ghosts were basically souls without bodies, then it was perfectly logical that the green mess all over the ground was his ec...”

“I dial her mum's number, then sit down cross-legged, facing the wall. When she comes on the line, she sounds uncertain, hesitant. 'Hey! Guess where I am?' I ask, my voice loud with false cheer. 'Ra...”

“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...”