And she felt like they, the two of them, right here, right now, could make something that defied tragedy.

When the world turns chaotic, we must be the better part of chaos.

Do you think the occasional witch burning helps to weld society together?

A society that has to burn witches to hold itself together is a society that has already failed, and just doesn't know it yet.

Why would anybody be a Satanist, anyway? I don’t get it. You can’t believe in Satan without believing in God, and then you’re just picking the wrong side in a big mythic battle thing.

Loneliness was a full-body sensation, an anti-exhilaration, from his core outward.

Love was the most susceptible to random failure of all human enterprises.

That’s the definition of evil right there: not faking it like everybody else.

What was worse, being crazy or being evil?

Self-awareness paradoxically requires an awareness of the other.

Laurence felt a weird combination of shame and rage, as though he'd grown another new body part just in time to get punched in it.

Toby Zeigler: There's literally no one in the world I don't hate right now.

But what is a person, George? How much is a person worth? Are we nothing but dust that is whipped up and spread to the winds?

because in the past words have only driven them apart.

Anyone who witnesses to the Grace of God revealed in Christ is undertaking direct assault against Satan's dominion.

Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun.

Openness to all attitudes no matter how extreme or unrealistic they may seem.

I hold myself accountable for my contradictions.

Evolutionary theory holds that our ability to sense when we should be suspicious has been every bit as essential for human survival as our capacity for trust and cooperation.

Sometimes we give up a dream to play a larger role in someone else's dream.

I'd stop the world from spinning for you