“And for Peter... well, sometimes cruelty is kindness in disguise. Sometimes pain is the best teacher. Sometimes it does you no harm to realize that there's a limit to what you can get away with.”
Mike Carey“You know, I'm like Avis rent-a-car: Because I'm insignificant, I try harder.”
Mike Carey“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.”
Mike Carey“But you can't save people from the world.There's nowhere else to take them”
Mike Carey“Michael: There's nothing here to fear.Lucifer: Well, there's always the truth.”
Mike Carey“And for Peter... well, sometimes cruelty is kindness in disguise. Sometimes pain is the best teacher. Sometimes it does you no harm to realize that there's a limit to what you can get away with.”
Mike Carey, The Devil You Know“You move on. You move back. On because you're always getting older, back because there's always a set of habits and routines to catch you and suck you back in when your guard is down.”
Mike Carey, The Devil You Know“It was a hot, moist armpit of a night...”
Mike Carey, The Naming of the Beasts“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.”
Mike Carey, The Naming of the Beasts“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.”
Mike Carey, Lucifer, Book One“I have stared into the light and you are all my shadows.”
Mike Carey, Lucifer, Vol. 5: Inferno