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

I love watching him think," Maeve told Lily. "You can almost hear that poor little hamster running and running on its wheel.

The mad rarely know that they are mad. It's the rest of the world, I think, that seems insane to them.

I don't have a muse. I have a mortgage.

Heroism doesn't pay very well. I try to be cold-blooded and money-oriented, but I keep screwing it up.

Harry," she said quietly, "I know you must be angry." I burn things to ash and smash holes in buildings when I'm angry," I said. "I'm a couple of steps past that point right now.

Son. Everyone dies alone. That's what it is. It's a door. It's one person wide. When you go through it, you do it alone. But it doesn't mean you've got to be alone before you go through the door. And believe me, you aren't alone on the other side.