"Michael: There's nothing here to fear.Lucifer: Well, there's always the truth."
- Mike Carey
"But you can't save people from the world.There's nowhere else to take them"
"Fear is a serviceable tool, I suppose. Like the stalls in a battery farm. If you want to keep people from their collective strength, make them too afraid of each other to ever meet or talk."
"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."
"You know what it's like to *lose* yourself in a story. We have brother and sister *souls*."
"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 ..."
"It was a hot, moist armpit of a night..."
"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."
"So what I’m getting at is this. Okay, maybe it’s cold in the grave. Maybe you come out of the light and you think, Fuck your mother, this is bad. This is worse than anything I would have guessed. But ..."
"You know, I'm like Avis rent-a-car: Because I'm insignificant, I try harder."