That's what humanity is: a series of successes and failures, a testing of one's own nature and aptitude. Neither the body nor the soul can sustain such a state. Eventually it consumes a person

Dimitri: "Why did you come here?" Rose: "Because you hit me on the head and dragged me here.

After the bitching I'd done to Abe about going to remote, crappy places, I should have been excited about the prospect of going to Sin City.

I sighed and gestured toward him. "I'll take him." In an undertone, I added, "Don't let me down, Zmey.

The nice thing about a series is you can end on cliffhangers all the time. You can be like, 'You know what? Here we go, this person just died, end of book.' And with the end of the series, you're very conscious of all the plotlines that were left hanging. There's a balance there to wrap those up but still leave it exciting.

Impossible situations are our specialty.

Can't you... I don't. Find a hobby or something?" "Being charming is my hobby.