"He let her do it, then looked around for his fingers. There they were, curled like a bloody quotation mark on the lead. He laughed."
- Philip Pullman
"My feelings for Raphael are mine, and mine alone. I loved him, and that is all anyone needs to know. The rest is no business of any man's."
- John Connolly
"What?' He cried, darting at him a look of fury: 'Dare you still implore the Eternal's mercy? Would you feign penitence, and again act an Hypocrite's part? Villain, resign your hopes of pardon. Thus I ..."
- Matthew Lewis
"History has to live with what was here,clutching and close to fumbling all we had -it is so dull and gruesome how we die,unlike writing, life never finishes."
- Robert Lowell