“There's a reason my only friends are written words”

“Shocked to see me?" I drawl at them, chuckling at the horrific joke.”

“Cal's eyes flicker, out to the trees. But he's not looking at the leaves. His gaze is in the past, to something more painful. "She killed my true mother as well. And she'll kill all of us if we let...”

“But our mercy has a cost, and it might be our lives.”

“And I am revealed for exactly what I am - a particularly stupid fish, moving from hook to hook, never learning my lesson.”

“Don't lie to a liar,”

“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...”