“He who rides a tiger is afraid to dismount.”

“Her music ran through him with electric energy, more joyous than anything he could remember and more painful than silver.”

“With her face tilted up to his, the subtle edge of moonlight touched along the edge of one high cheekbone, the tilted edge of one eye, and those beautiful, enticing lips. Obeying an impulse he coul...”

“Your music hurts, the way sunshine hurts when youve existed for a long time in darkness.”

“He cupped her head with both hands. Youre full of your own kind of magic, and its much more rare and beautiful than all the other spells around you. They are commonplace. You are unique.”

“Hell is empty, and all the devils are here. Unfortunately, he said as gently as he knew how, it would appear so.”

“The sight of a worm excites my reverence more than all the gods men have invented.”

“For the natural polytheist, whose gods arise in and from the natural material world ... Our gods not only have transcendent eyes and metaphysical hands. They have antlers and feathers, hooves and s...”

“I sing to you of many more gods, gods of wind and water, gods of each mineral and the events that created them. I sing to you of the gods of protons, of quarks, of atomic forces binding and holding...”