To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Mutilation is the badge that can never be taken off, and sets us apart from all others. Pain is important to the bonding-a physical horror that bonds us ever tighter to all those who have partaken. The intensity of the experience helps to widen the gulf between us and those who have not shared.

Evil, however powerful it seemed,could be undone by its own appetite

Believe me, when I say; There are no two powers That command the soul. One is God The other is the tide. -Anon From the novel Abarat

If you want to look like the people next door, you're probably smothering yourself into your dreams.

The great grey beast February had eaten Harvey Swick alive.

Whatever capacity she possesses to supernaturally beguile a human soul—and she possesses many—she liked his clear-sightedness too well, to blind him that way.