It isn't that the lies are too beautiful to resist. It's that the truth is too hideous to face.

You're mortal, and only a mortal can afford to be romantic. When we conquered death, we murdered love.

Good God, man, what is that smell?" He eyed with disgust the doctor's filthy cloak. "Life," answered the doctor.

I have a very low tolerance for boredom and often think I would have missed out on books entirely if Id grown up in the Internet and video game age. Now I enjoy books for people of all ages, including children.

It's like a cockroach working up a plan to defeat the shoe on its way down to crush it.

If I had faced it then, I wouldn't be facing it now, but sooner or later you have to choose between running and facing the thing you thought you could not face.

Oh, Will Henry. After all we have been through, how could I send you away now, at our most critical hour? You are indispensable to me.