“Perhaps the so-called civilized world was a great noisy burden beneath all its wonders, and it was a relief to let go of it for a while.”

“Life is naught but battles big and small, and most of them unexpected.”

“Education and assimilation were devastatingly effective at controlling a conquered people.”

“Rhys was hot enough to bake cookies on.”

“As she peeked through the curtains with the phone in her hand, waiting for the police dispatcher to pick up, she realized there was one thing she did know about the naked stranger in her yard. He h...”

“Romans and fairies and death dogs, oh my.”

“Everybody says you have to decide between the head and the heart, but thats just so much bullshit. Your heart and your head dont know a damn thing between them when it comes to other people. Your h...”

“Kind of like CSI investigating a social errorHeres the corpse of the situation, what do you think killed it?with the hope of preventing further fatalities. Often as not, it boiled down to missed cues.”

“Sometimes the universe conspires to give you what you really want, Liam. And its your job to let it.”

“There was once a young man who wished to gain his Hearts Desire.”

“He was walking into Faerie, in search of a fallen star, with no idea how he would find the star, nor how to keep himself safe and whole as he tried. He looked back and fancied that he could see the...”

“Ive told you that Im a tricksy wight, and I am, my sweet. But there are those in the Seelie Court who would make me seem a very perfect knight.”

“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.”