“Your vile and bitter diatribes only serve to show how vile and bitter you must be.”

“Comments outnumber ideas.”

“As you wish, of course." Lucius lowered the volume on an old record player, which spun a warped vinyl disk that wailed unfamiliar music, scratchy and whiny, like cats fighting. Or a coffin with rus...”

“My Soul is my Guide, for my Soul is of that Abode I will not Speak of the Earthly, I am of the Unknown.”

“In our land of opportunities and distractions, it's hard to devote our attention to the quiet pleasures of reading. It's as if we live our lives in a noisy restaurant and can't have the intimate co...”

“I'll show you how," Peter said. "Stop hiding behind your ignorance.”