“Marcii hoped she was wrong, though she knew the odds were slim.Still, in the face of everything, there is always hope.”

“He stood taller, and straighter, and broader, and infinitely more human than anything else Marcii could possibly imagine.”

“He was like nothing shed ever known.Marcii hoped she would come to know him, for he was all she could ever have asked for and more.”

“She has no interest in human quarrels, for they are often petty and always pointless.”

“Just because he was not a monster did not mean he wouldnt be treated as one.”

“If this was what it meant to be human, for now she saw more clearly than she ever had done, she didnt want to be.”

“Men who fear demons see demons everywhere.”

“What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innume...”

“I suddenly realized. The zebra. It is not something outside of us. The zebra is something inside of us. Our fears. Our own self-destructive nature. The zebra is the worst part of us when we are fac...”

“Over the years I have felt many things leave me. People do not change, but yet somehow time alters everything. As the years roll on people are not quite as forgiving, nor quite as kind, hopeful, lo...”

“She hoped Alistair would prove to be more than she imagined. But, unfortunately, she knew without a shadow of a doubt that people werent what they once were.”

“Our pasts haunt us all.I regaled my beautiful audience of one with the tale of my life, not so much for entertainment, but for bold, barefaced, honest truth.”

“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.”