Look. I brought you here to give you a choice-" "You didn't bring us here," said Nick. "You're here," said Bod. "I wanted you here. I came here. You followed me. Same thing.

There are people who think that things that happen in fiction do not really happen. These people are wrong.

As far as I'm concerned, the entire reason for becoming a writer is not having to get up in the morning.

I like airplanes. I like anywhere that isn't a proper place. I like in betweens.

If you were close enough to her ruby-red lips you would hear her say, 'I will rise now and go about the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek the one I love.' She is whispering that, and she whispers, 'By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth. Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth. My beloved is mine and I am his.

People kill what they fear. They burned, and drowned, and hanged those they saw as witches, the devil's servants: the wise women and the cunning men, the unfortunate, the lost and the strange

If you are protected from dark things then you have no protection of, knowledge of, or understanding of dark things when they show up.