“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“I have stared into the light and you are all my shadows.”