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Oh my God. Stop reading my mind!" "Then stop being a decent human being with perfectly predictable emotional reactions!

being licked to death by the fearless warriors who had apparently decided he was their god. Deacon had that effect on people.

Came first?" Amelia said, popping out of the ladies' room with impeccable timing. "God, Ethan, that was the best blasphemy ever!

using the works to balance his way into the arrivals wing so he could check in.

small talk about how hot all the Marvel stars were and how he might even do the raccoon if he got desperate enough, and somehow, they managed to make it home.

The other man leaned back his head and breathed carefully for a few minutes. John waited in respect. You had to respect pain, because pain didn't respect shit.

Breathing was easier, and he felt the stiffness on his ribs, which meant they'd been taped.

If you ever say anything about fairies knitting for two gay men again, I will fire you, then I'll knit you a noose, do you hear me?

You're a child, right? You have school? Is there anyway you could... reschedule school for another day?

made her feel flattened and worthless. His anger was like that lightning cloud rising above the dome in La Tempesta.

I loved fairy tales when I was a kid. Grimm. The grimmer the better. I loved gruesome gothic tales and, in that respect, I liked Bible stories, because to me they were very gothic.

Writing what you wished was the most dangerous form of wishful thinking.

You can do what you like to a writer if you don't mind being put in a book.

The Triumphal Entry cannot be separated from the cross, and the cross cannot be separated from the call of justice. And that call cannot be separated from risk, personal, professional, permanent.

we should resist the tendency, which is part of the rhetoric of the Gospels and their reception, to associate disability with sin.

Politicians are stupid. The saying expires as soon as I enter politics.

The first draught serveth for health, the second for pleasure, the third for shame, and the fourth for madness.

My Passion uncontrolled shall rove, Doubly debauched with Wine and Love.

To be misunderstood can be the writer's punishment for having disturbed the reader's peace. The greater the disturbance, the greater the possibility of misunderstanding.

The duty of literature is to note what counts, and to light up what is suited to the light. If it ceases to choose and to love, it becomes like a woman who gives herself without preference.

The pseudonym for God when He did not want to sign.

I am but a miserable sinner, but I have found, in my long life, that the cenobite has no foe worse than sadness".

A religião prestou ao amor um grande serviço, fazendo dele um pecado.

Signori, i pinguini sono malcontenti del nuovo regime, perché, anche se ne traggono profitto, è naturale per gli uomini lamentarsi della propria condizione.