It was an overcast late November morning, the grass splintered by hoarfrost, and winter grinning through the gaps in the clouds like a bad clown peering through the curtains before the show begins.
John ConnollyWe are not meant to know the time or the nature of our deaths (for all of us secretly hope that we may be immortal).
John ConnollyHe became merely the broken statue of a beast, now without another's fear to animate it.
John ConnollyYou mean they killed her?" asked David. They ate her," said Brother Number One. "With porridge. That's what 'ran away and was never seen again' means in these parts. It means 'eaten.'" Um and what about 'happily ever after'?" asked David, a little uncertainly. "What does that mean?" Eaten quickly," said Brother Number One.
John Connolly