“I'll be the first to admit that I have no experience with relationships. But it just seems logicala man and woman have to be somewhat equalas in, one of them can't always be swooping in and saving ...”

“Life sucks, and then you die.Yeah, I should be so lucky.”

“Personal affection is a luxury you can have only after all your enemies are eliminated. Until then, everyone you love is a hostage, sapping your courage and corrupting your judgment.”

“I wanted the monster back and that was plainly wrong.”

“My future husband was becoming to me my whole world; and more than the world: almost my hope of heaven. He stood between me and every thought of religion, as an eclipse intervenes between man and t...”

“Im a survivor. And like the moon, I have a feeling it would take a truly spectacular event to keep me from taking my place in the scheme of things, waxing, waning, and eclipsing notwithstanding.”

“She is mine.' Edwards low voice was suddenly dark, not as composed as before. 'I didnt say I would fight fair.”

“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.”