She patted him on the arm. You’re fucked up, Mister. But you’re cool. I believe that’s what they call the human condition, said Shadow.
Shadow had noticed that you only ever catch one episode of shows you don't watch, over and over, years apart: he thought it must be some kind of cosmic law.
Reed says that God made a thousand, thousand worlds, each like this one, only different. I hope there's one of them in which I chose to walk another path. But I fear that in any universe my path will...
People can change.
One who transmuted things from formlessness and shapelessness into that-which-was-not-real, but without which the real would have no meaning
Once I dreamed I kept a perfect little bed and breakfast by the seaside, and to everyone who came to stay with me I would say, in that tongue, 'Be whole,' and they would become whole, not be broken pe...
Nothing [the demon] could think up was half as bad as the stuff [people] thought up themselves. They seemed to have a talent for it. It was built into their design somehow. They were born into a world...
Not only are there no happy endings,' she told him, 'there aren't even any endings.
Nice' in a bodyguard is about as useful as the ability to regurgitate whole lobsters.
Names. Names. The old woman squinted, then she shook her head. She was herself, and the name she had been born with had been eaten by time and lack of use.
My bed was pushed up hard against the wall just below the window. I loved to sleep with the windows open. Rainy nights were the best of all: I would open my windows and put my head on my pillow and cl...
Many phenomena - wars, plagues, sudden audits - have been advanced as evidence for the hidden hand of Satan in the affairs of Man, but whenever students of demonology get together the M25 London orbit...
Loki was not evil, although he was certainly not a force for good. Loki was . . . complicated.
Laura made a great chili. She used lean meat, dark kidney beans, carrots cut small, a bottle or so of dark beer, and freshly sliced hot peppers. She would let the chili cook for a while, then add red...
Laura looked up at him with dead blue eyes. I want to be alive again, she said. Not in this half-life. I want to be alive. I want to feel my heart pumping in my chest again. I want to feel blood movi...
It's just harder out there in the world of the living, and we cannot protect you out there as easily. I wanted to keep you perfectly safe...But there is only one perfectly safe place for your kind, an...
It's a weapon, I understand?In the wrong hands, all tools are weapons. In the right hands, everything is a weapon, or nothing is.
It won't hurt, said her other father. Coraline knew that when grown-ups told you something wouldn't hurt it almost always did. She shook her head.
It was true: the other mother loved her. But she loved Coraline as a miser loves money, or a dragon loves its gold. In the other mother's button eyes, Coraline knew that she was a possession, nothing...
In the pale light of the Moon I play the game of you. Whoever I am. Whoever you are. All sense of where I am, of who I am and where I’m going, has been swallowed by the dark. And I walk through the st...