“Happiness is the province of those who ask few questions.”
Christopher Buehlman“A mundane lie hiding an exotic truth is deception; an exotic lie hiding a mundane truth is storytelling. Deception may be necessary to preserve life, but storytelling makes life worth living.”
Christopher Buehlman“One of the hardest and truest things a grown-up learns is that sometimes it's not okay.”
Christopher Buehlman“We often live next to monsters unawares.”
Christopher Buehlman, The Lesser Dead“You’d probably rather have a milk shake than a quart of blood, too, so we’ll have to agree to disagree.”
Christopher Buehlman, The Lesser Dead“I mostly drink clear booze because the rest of it looks it's already been through a gentleman.”
Christopher Buehlman, Those Across the River“The dead shouldn’t cry, not even the lesser dead.”
Christopher Buehlman, The Lesser Dead“She had seen him once, smiling a little through another friar’s sermon about Hell, saying after the other left that fear of Hell is one of many paths to it. Forget Hell and love one another. That is all He wants of you.”
Christopher Buehlman, Between Two Fires“The undead don’t care about careers. Vampires are all retirees.”
Christopher Buehlman, The Lesser Dead“Happiness is the province of those who ask few questions.”
Christopher Buehlman, The Lesser Dead“The landscape had been so maimed by this new kind of warfare it was as if human architects of great genius had sat down to plan hell, since no two of them could agree on the design of heaven.”
Christopher Buehlman, Those Across the River