Paradox is an overrated threat. There is...a quality similar to inertia at work. Once an event has occurred, there is an extremely strong tendency for that event to occur. The larger, more significant, or more energetic the event, the more it tends to remain as it originally happened, despite any interference." I frowned. "There's...a law of conservation of history?

I'm dealing with a lot of scary things. I think you have to react to them. And you either laugh at them or you go insane.

Any time I’m not shooting my mouth off to a clichéd, two-bit creature of the night like you, it’s because I’m up to something.

My faith protects me. My Kevlar helps.

All of those faeries and duels and mad queens and so on, and no one quoted old Billy Shakespeare. Not even once.

My main source for faith-based stuff is mostly the Bible, and a childhood with a much, much higher-than-median exposure to theological thought.

Troubleshooters?" Michael asked. "When there's trouble," I told him, "they shoot it.