“Your death, strange human. I mean, your injury. No murder, just a little maiming. So I can leave. Maimings not so bad.”

“But worries are for people who cant pull grown men apart with their bare hands.”

“I eye the three of them, considering. Theyll need a lesson in discretion before I go. Not a lethal lesson. Mom wouldnt like that.”

“My teeth rip skin; my jaws snap bones. I am fast, lightning-fast, snuff oh-was-that-your-life?oh-was-that-your-life? fast.”

“Oooooh, dont make her mad! the leader gasps around his laughter.”

“A human teenager. One of Gods most misbegotten creatures big like grown-ups and yet dumb like children.”

“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.”

“Lesson one: expect to get screwed over for the convenience of others on a regular basis.”

“All this bunch of so-called 'adults' was doing was making enemies of one another when what they really needed to be concentrating on was how to get out alive.”

“Now you're an adult, Katya!" he'd said, picking her up under the armpits like he'd been doing since she'd been born.”