There's a virtue,' Felix said, 'to listening to a reluctant storyteller. You know that he is in fact diving deep for the salvageable truth.

The old gods will bring about vengeance not so much because they exist but because I once honored them.

Oh, the lies that I have told myself and others. I knew it yet I didn't know.

Curses of vanished elders echoed down on me; too pretty, too soft, too pale, eyes far too full of the Devil, ah, that devilish smile

We're frightened of what makes us different.

One moment the world is as it is. The next, it is something entirely different. Something it has never been before.

An evil for these times destined to move through the world in handsome human guise.