Actually I didn't shoot a man in Reno just to watch him die, but he could tell I was extremely cross.

There was only one guy in the whole Bible Jesus ever personally promised a place with him in Paradise. Not Peter, not Paul, not any of those guys. He was a convicted thief, being executed. So don't knock the guys on death row. Maybe they know something you don't.

Coraline wondered why so few of the adults she met made any sense.

Words can wound, and wounds can heal.

Call no man happy, said Shadow, until he is dead

Virginia is the place, where, technologically speaking, they will burn people at the stake for possessing such things as toasters.

So, you figure they won't notice you're back?" sneered the marquis. "Just, 'oh look, there's another angel, here, grab a harp and on with the hosannas'?