“So what did you do, drug me, stuff me in the trunk, then dump me like a sacrificial offering into that vampires coffin? - Shella”

“Been lickin peanut-butter spoons? Maybe I should call you butterfingers. It has a better ring than Hella Shella. - Tran'Answer my question, Tran. Right now. Or I show you just what these fingers'--...”

“Youre starting to look like you did before, and thats not good because what you looked like was complete shit, so get up and go to bed so I can stop acting like your mother. I can already feel my b...”

“I can be a gentleman off and on. When the urge hits me. - Tran”

“Just shut up and talk. - Shella”

“Why would Dad call you? I mean, you have to admit that he would have been better off calling the local prison and asking them to send out one of the convicted killers to come find me. - Shella”

“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.”

“Tall and built like a dense forest, Clint's broad shoulders made a girl want to learn how to scale trees. Except me. I wanted to start a forest fire.”