They were on the side of the angels, even if the angels weren't entirely sure that this was a good thing.

She was plump, with dyed red hair and a face so caked with cosmetics that the floor of the Amazon jungle probably saw more natural light.

You had evil inside you, and you indulged it. Men will always indulge it.

You 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.

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.

I believe in those whom I love and trust.

I'd been hurt, and in response I had acted violently, destroying a little of myself each time I did so.