Mike Carey

“But you can't save people from the world.There's nowhere else to take them”

“You know what pulp is, Mr. Tallis? It's the flesh of a luscious fruit, mashed down into an incredible, half liquid richness. so saturated with flavor that it fills your whole body, not just your mouth.”

“You know, I'm like Avis rent-a-car: Because I'm insignificant, I try harder.”

“You know what it's like to *lose* yourself in a story. We have brother and sister *souls*.”

“Fear is a serviceable tool, I suppose. Like the stalls in a battery farm. If you want to keep people from their collective strength, make them too afraid of each other to ever meet or talk.”

“So what I’m getting at is this. Okay, maybe it’s cold in the grave. Maybe you come out of the light and you think, Fuck your mother, this is bad. This is worse than anything I would have guessed. But the trick is to clench your teeth, get a running start and dive.When I hit that other country, from whose bourne no traveller back-pedals, I’m going to be moving fast. I’m gambling that the first ten seconds or so will be the worst.”

“Michael: There's nothing here to fear.Lucifer: Well, there's always the truth.”

“If I had a box full of all the evils of the world, I'd open it just a little way and push you inside. Then I'd close it again for always.”

“It was a hot, moist armpit of a night...”

“All stories are lies. But good stories are lies made from light and fire. And they lift our hearts out of the dust, and out of the grave.”

“Those heart-hammering nightmares that start to lose coherence even as you're waking up from them, but that still manage to leave their moldering fingerprints all across your day.”

“Because all the waters of the ocean won't fill a bucket with a hole in it. And that's their fall, and that's their fellowship. Desire. The hole in the bucket: the gulf of yearning into which the soul empties itself.”