Cursed with conscience and damned with duty, because that’s how we always reward the best of us.
Many of the self-styled prophets recognised me, and made the sign of the cross at me. Some made the sign of the extremely cross, and shook hand-made charms and fetishes at me.
You can always rely on a woman to fight dirty,” I said, and all the other men nodded solemnly in unison – until.
I’m not crazy. I know what I’m doing. You’re just jealous because the voices only speak to me.
Always so ready to say something inappropriate.
My mother turned out to be a Biblical Myth; from that part of the Old Testament where God gets really angry.
Oh come on!” I said. “If Walker couldn’t control me with his Voice, did you really think you stood any chance? I’ve been around. I’ve stepped on worse things than you! I’ve faced angels, from Above and Below! I don’t bow down to anyone! I’m John Taylor!
And because if you have to hide in the shadows, it helps if you thin out the predators that want to hide in there with you.
Do we at least have a plan, darling?’ ‘See what there is to see, and if anything moves hit it till it doesn’t.’ ‘Good plan,’ said Penny.
I sipped the stuff carefully before giving my opinion. ‘Vile,’ I said. ‘Truly vile, with a creeping undertaste of Oh My God.
Love is for the living, for people who have a stake in the future.
Love conquers all,” murmured Kim. “I heard it in a song, so it must be true.
I’ve never been good at puzzles. When you wear a suit of armour that can punch holes through the world, mostly you don’t have to be. Other people will normally fall all over themselves to tell you everything you need to know. The Somnambulist started to snore quietly. Walker.
Nostalgia for old fictions is the strongest nostalgia of all.
I’ve known what it feels like, when your whole life hurts so much that you’re ready to die, just for the pain to stop. A little less stubbornness, a little more resolve at certain moments, and I might have been one of these poor trapped souls...
There is a line I will not cross.
Remember, the way to a vampire’s heart is straight under the sternum, and then lean in hard.’ I.
A private face behind every public mask, a hidden meaning peeking through whatever words they choose to share with you.
The past is what we make of it, if we know what’s is good for us.
Secret agents gossip like schoolgirls. Just because they know they shouldn’t. Parker.