“I think, well, I've had a shit of a life, all things considered. It wasn't fair. Everyone I've ever loved is dead, and my leg hurts all the bloody time... But I think, any God that can do sunsets l...”

“Why do they blame me for all their little failings? They use my name as if I spent my entire days sitting on their shoulders, forcing them to commit acts they would otherwise find repulsive. 'The d...”

“They believe themselves Lucifer's equals, Cain, all these pitiful little gnats. But there is only one that we have ever owned to be our superior. There is but one greater than us, and to him... to ...”

“I think maybe Hell is a place. But you don't have to stay anywhere forever.”

“Everything created has a beginning, Destiny of the Endless...as everything created has an end.”

“Walk any path in Destiny's garden, and you will be forced to choose, not once but many times.”

“Destiny smells of dust and the libraries of the night.”

“Destiny smells of dust and the libraries of the night.”

“Destiny smells of dust and the libraries of night.”

“my first recommendation to people in charge of science education is, more money for public libraries and museums. Public libraries and museums ought to be as common as schools.”

“Society was the only threat to the sanctity of selfhood: an unpatroned library was an orderly library.”

“If the library in the morning suggests an echo of the severe and reasonable wishful order of the world, the library at night seems to rejoice in the world's essential, joyful muddle. ”