“Im a dot in the grand scheme of things. I dont matter, not even to the other dots.”

“You said the d-word, Owllwin said regretfully. I didnt think you would, or I woulda warned ya. . . . the d-word? Cricket repeated in confusion.Yeah . . . Owllwin paused as if he was glancing around...”

“Owllwin was easiest the most contrary person Cricket had ever known. He was arrogant but humble, cowardly but brave, foolish but wise. He was funny, but sometimes she caught him crying when he was ...”

“Yet while Owllwin was arrogant, he was also humble enough to admit when he had made a mistake. Perhaps it was his sheer clumsiness that kept him so humble: the first time he spoke to Cricket was in...”

“As if the president gives a crap about demons and what they go through just because her fathers got horns? Morganith returned. She never opens her coward mouth about the quiet oppression the demons...”

“Rigg laughed softly at Lisas deadpan joke, but she halted when she noticed the back of Lisas neck: the factory number had been shaved away, roughly and angrily. Frowning in confusion, Rigg gently r...”

“Sibyl, what do you want?I want to live, the Sibyl said, and her voice rang rich and full. I want to keep on living forever and watching heroes and fools and knights go up and down, into the world a...”

“When God is driven to the periphery of the public square, the human spiritual capacity longs for exercise, and it often finds it in the suspension of disbelief and activity of the imagination that ...”

“When is a monster not a monster? Oh, when you love it.”

“What you choose to do in this life will surely affect you in the next... Just do good, even when it's very hard to do so. It's your life that's on the line.”

“GET IN" he says, getting in on the driver side. I get in with no questions. Okay. This is a bad movie waiting to happen-I'm getting in a car with a guy I just met today who is keeping secrets from ...”

“What will I do if I find myself with a heart?" "Lose it constantly, I imagine.”

“You never want to look in a mirror," Lula said. "Men love mirrors. They look at themselves doing the deed and they see Rex the Wonder Horse. Women look at themselves and think they need to renew th...”

“Once a month, for one evening, we are free to wear our natural skins. We are on the outside as we are internally.”

“A long shaft of light came down from the sun behind the clouds and fell on the rearing, striking horses so that Thowra was the glittering foam on a waterfall, was quicksilver held for a dazzling mo...”