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You know," he said, "every time a vampire says he doesn't believe in lycanthropes, a werewolf bursts into flames.

Marshal Reeves, watching me, snorted. "Live and learn, child," he said. "Everybody's worthy of respect.

My love is not water in a bucket, you know. It's not as if someone else can drink it all up and leave none left for you.

You ain't gonna like what I have to tell you, but I'm gonna tell you anyway.

Though I am otherwise relentlessly normal, I have one peculiarity: I get along well only with people who are smarter than me.

We must create our children alive and fragile and pulsing with the hot blood that is so easy, so terribly easy to spill. It

I liked her scowl and I liked her freedom to wear it.

There were none so scornful as those who had had to learn the hard way.

Peter handed me a glass of wine - my own Neon White Red,

And then I had my greatest stroke of genius since that ham sandwich with pickles that time.

If you could disagree with kings, were gods so far above?

The words were low, more shape than breath.

The older he got, the simpler the world was revealed to be.

The path to knowledge follows many strange turnings.

The only God is in the numbers and the fire; in the equations and the furnace

The kiss tasted of bitter sleep, the sourness of the wine. Something brought by each of them.

She was alive. She was alive, and she had found her power - or it had found her.
Tomorrow's problems she'd take care of tomorrow.

Bill blinked tears from his eyes, then fastened his gaze on me. "Bitch," he snarled - why they never think of anything cleverer I'll never know.

Every one of us is a minor tragedy. Most of us learn to cope.

Glanced ostentatiously at my bangle. Blood alcohol content .01%, heart rate leveling off at 72 beats per minute, time 11:42 p.m.

- I'm sorry, but I don't know any stories.

Some things are just universal.
Like the known scientific fact that the colder and wetter you are, the better bacon smells frying.

I am the Sovereign of Iss!" the girl declared. "And you are the daughter of Ciwril Xidyla! They had better listen to us.

The secret to getting away with lying, is believing with all your heart. That goes for lying to yourself even more so than lying to another

Sanchez has always heard he's a good cop, maybe even a decent man. The latter's more common than the former; power breeds abuse.

Eavesdropping's a sin, but ignorance is fatal. Take your pick.

The Devil can quote scripture, after all. And monsters can say "please" and "thank you" same as any mother's son.

May I know your name, sir?"
The smile rearranged his face under the terrible scars. "Nezahualcoyotl. Michel Nezahualcoyotl. Charmed.

A woman in the West? You show me one who doesn't drink, and I'll show you one that wants to.

So why a woman did the same should be judged different ... well, women always is. Judged different, I mean.

Opinions are like kittens," he commented. "People are always giving them away.

A barn owl was perched atop the refrigerator.

The harpy smiles. A harpy's smile is an ugly thing, even seen edge-on. The harpy says, You do not have the power to make me not alone, Desiree.

Like the minor poet who knows the meanness of his gift, I am doomed to a lifetime of frustration: to be able to comprehend beauty, but not create it.

Once you absorb the maths, it's all perfectly clear.