I am especially grateful, however, to have known the fifties, before we began to poison our own civilization - or at least before the effects of the poison began to be felt.

Ethan Wyeth: I hope you're thirsty." Gideon Wyeth:"Why?" Ethan: "Cause your dumb and ugly, but I can do something about thirsty.

Evil people naturally assume that you will use that power exactly as they would use it.

We're like the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, then eat the little brats alive.

I want to be the kind of boy you are, thought Bean. But I don’t want to go through what you’ve been through to get there.

Maybe that's all demons ever are. People like us, doing things without even knowing what we're doing.

And if you're going to criticize me for not finishing the whole thing and tying it up in a bow for you, why, do us both a favor and write your own damn book, only have the decency to call it a romance instead of a history, because history's got no bows on it, only frayed ends of ribbons and knots that can't be untied. It ain't a pretty package, but then it's not your birthday that I know of so I'm under no obligation to give you a gift.