Things just seem so much better in theory than in practice.

Some of us are born in the right place, and some of us have to go look for it.

Real life is a story, too, only much more complicated. It’s still got a beginning, a middle, and an end. Everyone follows the same rules, you know. . . It’s just that there are more of them. Everyone has chapters and cliffhangers. Everyone has their journey to make. Some go far and wide and come back empty-handed; some don’t go anywhere and their journey makes them richest of all. Some tales have a moral and some don’t make any sense. Some will make you laugh, others make you cry. The world is a library, young Poison, and you’ll never get to read the same book twice.

Imagination is as close as we will ever be to godhead . . . for in imagination, we can create wonders.

I just wanted them to die," said Poison. "They didn't have to make such a drama about it.

If there was one thing worse than being cheated, it was being cheated by someone who referred to themselves in the third person.

Not for the first time, he wished he commanded a highly trained bunch of soldiers instead of a ragtag mob of rejects in varying stages of alcoholism.