Any statement beginning with the words 'In truth' is almost always a lie.

She nods. You're good for the ones you love. You want to be good for the ones you love, because you know that your time with them will end up being too short, no matter how long it is.

The quickest way to learn about a new place is to know what it dreams of.

All is forgotten in the stone halls of the dead. These are the rooms of ruin where the spiders spin and the great circuits fall quiet, one by one.

I didn't go to bars much. One drunken asshole was all I could handle and that was me. I wrote. I don't remember a lot of it.

...knowing that to be a librarian was to come as close as any human being can to sitting in the peak-seat of eternity's engine.

The town kept its secrets, and the Marsten House brooded over it like a ruined king.