"Are you going to let me be eaten?' Billy Beecham looks stunned.'Don't you know that sometimes Beast collectors get collected?' I ask him.'But you're a virgin.''Virgins were never sacrifices,' I say. "..."
- Maria Dahvana Headley
"I think about celestial junk. Like, maybe every planet in this solar system is discarded by giant hands. Each star a crumpled ball of paper, a love letter lit on fire, a smoldering bit of cigarette as..."
"Even people who've never seen a miracle can believe in miracles."
"I like the sky. It's rational to me in a way that life isn't."