Adolphus is not at his desk. That means he is somewhere in the Monstrumarium, has gone home for the day, or is dead.

A word of advice, Will Henry. When a person of the female gender says she wants to show you something, run the other way. The odds are it is not something you wish to see.

When you look death in the eye and death blinks first, nothing seems impossible.

I'm one, too," he said. "What?" He spit a wad of blood and mucus into the dirt. "A virgin." What a shock. "What makes you think I'm a virgin?" I asked. "You wouldn't have hit me if you weren't.

Miss Marks, you see, makes her living by...entertaining young, and not so young, sailors...or any other members of the armed forced, or civilians, who enjoy...being entertained by ladies who...entertain.

Cruelty isn't a personality trait. Cruelty is a habit.

And if humanity is the last war, then I am the battlefield.