“Rachelle choked on a laugh. You were always stronger.You, said Amlie, were always foolish enough to think that mattered.”

“Do you think he would dare half as much for your love as I have?No, she said. He never could. Thats why I love him.You were desperate for me.Desperate. Not happy. For the first time in all the year...”

“I'd rather worship bloody bones than the murderer who makes them.”

“The problem with martyrs is that theyre all dead. What do they have to do with us that are simple enough to still be alive? Should we just give up and want to die because death is better than disho...”

“The same wolfish greed beats in your heart: to have what you will, and kill for it.”

“He stared at her a moment longer, then laughed softly. I wouldnt love you if you were any weaker, he said, and let go of her.”

“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.”