"The black of the ocean waves was the color of the sorrow in my breast, a sorrow that was never far away and always visible."
- Barbara T. Cerny
"God himself had sent me away. I was truly now among the damned."
"I was once a man, not a great man, not a saintly man, but a good man, and a man nonetheless."
"I did not choose to be a monster—a shell of a man—half-human, half-fiend. I am a tiefling. I am what I am."
"My life was going exactly where I wanted it to until the Devil showed up."
"Iona stared at me for a long time. “You are going to leave me a widow before I have a chance to become a bride."
"Then it kissed me—not as a man would kiss a lover, not with tenderness or even passion. This was a kiss that stole the soul of men. Revulsion at this creature’s kiss was instantly replaced by the warm..."