Real men don’t kiss with the gentleness of a butterfly’s wing.

It’s just a party, right? What could possibly go wrong?

All the better to bite you, my dear!

I was dying, I realized vaguely. There was no getting out of that. The vampire author would be drained dry by a vampire. It was almost a poetic way to go.

Stop asking God to bless what you're doing. Find out what God's doing. It's already blessed.

A revolutionary who is out to defeat his enemies could use their weapons, but not their rules.

I’ll stick close to Sandy. I swear that woman isn’t afraid of anything or anybody.” Baldric gave Ralph a rare smile and winked.

It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.

Every man in Ingary is scared stiff of her. You ought to know how that feels, Sophie dear.

a man who had fallen among thieves lay by the roadside on his back dressed in fifteenthrate ideas wearing a round jeer for a hat

Cause even grown men need understanding.

Dammit, Jim. I'm a Guardian, not a doctor.

People who drink too much, health, and greedy. Hoard a treasure we do not like.

Make your enemy afraid, for it is impossible to remain quiet about their moral offences.