Can I hug you?Do you want to?said Bod.Yes.Well then.He thought for a moment.I don't mind if you do.My hands won't go through you or anything?You're really there?You won't go through me,he told her,and...
Organizing gods is like herding cats into straight lines. They don't take naturally to it.
I don't really like driving in the snow. There's something about the motion of the falling snowflakes that hurts my eyes, throws my sense of balance all to hell. It's like tumbling into a field of sta...
Sleep my little baby-ohSleep until you wakenWhen you wake you'll see the worldIf I'm not mistaken...Kiss a loverDance a measure,Find your nameAnd buried treasure...Face your lifeIts pain, Its pleasure...
Chicago happened slowly, like a migraine. First they were driving through countryside, then, imperceptibly, the occasional town became a low suburban sprawl, and the sprawl became the city.
It's astonishing how much trouble one can get oneself into, if one works at it. And astonishing how much trouble one can get oneself out of, if one simply assumes that everything will, somehow or othe...
So, he asked. How's death?Hard, she said. It just keeps going.
Name the different kinds of people,’ said Miss Lupescu. ‘Now.’Bod thought for a moment. ‘The living,’ he said. ‘Er. The dead.’ He stopped. Then, ‘... Cats?’ he offered, uncertainly.
Delirium: You use that word so much. Responsibilities. Do you ever think about what that means? I mean, what does it mean to you? In your head? Dream: Well, I use it to refer that area of existence ov...
You’re as plain as the nose on your face, said Mr. Pennyworth. And your nose is remarkably obvious. As is the rest of your face, young man. As are you. For the sake of all that is holy, empty your min...
CHORONZON: I am a dire wolf, prey-stalking, lethal prowler.MORPHEUS: I am a hunter, horse-mounted, wolf-stabbing.CHORONZON: I am a horsefly, horse-stinging, hunter-throwing.MORPHEUS: I am a spider, fl...
Nobody looks like what they really are on the inside. You don’t. I don’t. People are much more complicated than that. It’s true of everybody.'I said, 'Are you a monster? Like Ursula Monkton?'Lettie th...
It's funny. I thought she'd live through anything.Charlie said, Me too. I figured even if there was a nuclear war, it would still leave radioactive cockroaches and your mum.
I remember making that vow, the one not to forget. Not to remember what happened, but to remember who I was and how I felt.
But, expostulated Josiah Worthington. But. A human child. A living child. I mean. I mean, I mean. This is a graveyard, not a nursery, blast it.
Books were safer than other people anyway.
The marquis de Carabas was not a good man, and he knew himself well enough to be perfectly certain that he was not a brave man. He had long since decided that the world, Above or Below, was a place th...
Books smell and feel better. They have that wonderful thingness of turning the pages.
I thought about adults. I wondered if that was true: if they were all really children wrapped in adult bodies...
He is tolerated by the gods, perhaps because his stratagems and plans save them as often as they get them into trouble.Loki makes the world more interesting but less safe. He is the father of monsters...
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