Mike Carey Quotes

Michael: There's nothing here to fear. Lucifer: Well, there's always the truth.

Words are the birds that break cover and show your enemy where you're hiding.

An excellent indie horror book with a wholly original premise.

All stories are lies, but good stories are lies made of light and fire. They lift our hearts out of the dust and out of the grave.

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.

I have stared into the light and you are all my shadows.

No, there are no special places in hell. Hell is a democracy.

We make our own monsters, then fear them for what they show us about ourselves.

I think Louisville will be fired up for this game. They might be in revenge mode. But, this time of the year records, don't mean much. Anything can happen.

The world is a book. Some words stand out from the page.

I took a strong dislike to him right then to save time and effort later.

Be yourself, until you bleed.

Human beings take social stances, and if you’re respectful of all human beings, you have to decide what you’re going to do and why you’re going to do it.

It does no good to run. And it does no good to hide. But I know what it's like. Your brain shuts down, and you follow your instincts. Or, at least, you.

It's not a holiday until you overdo it!

When a book is read an irrevocable thing happens — a murder, followed by an imposture. The story in the mind murders the story on the page, and takes its place.

Beliefs are collars to which leashes can be attached

And for Peter... well, sometimes cruelty is kindness in disguise. Sometimes pain is the best teacher. Sometimes it does you no harm to realize that there's a limit to what you can get away with.

Michael: There's nothing here to fear.Lucifer: Well, there's always the truth.

You move on. You move back. On because you're always getting older, back because there's always a set of habits and routines to catch you and suck you back in when your guard is down.

All stories are lies. But good stories are lies made from light and fire. And they lift our hearts out of the dust, and out of the grave.

You know, I'm like Avis rent-a-car: Because I'm insignificant, I try harder.

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.

It was a hot, moist armpit of a night...

Dragons were a problem sometimes, but they only came on Tuesdays, so you could work around them.

You know what it's like to *lose* yourself in a story. We have brother and sister *souls*.

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.

But you can't save people from the world.There's nowhere else to take them