Mike Carey Quotes

Because all the waters of the ocean won't fill a bucket with a hole in it. And that's their fall, and that's their fellowship. Desire. The hole in the bucket: the gulf of yearning into which the soul empties itself.

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

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

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.

So what I’m getting at is this. Okay, maybe it’s cold in the grave. Maybe you come out of the light and you think, Fuck your mother, this is bad. This is worse than anything I would have guessed. But the trick is to clench your teeth, get a running start and dive.When I hit that other country, from whose bourne no traveller back-pedals, I’m going to be moving fast. I’m gambling that the first ten seconds or so will be the worst.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

Beliefs are collars to which leashes can be attached

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

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

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.

The trouble is, writing the damn thing is like unscrewing your skull and pouring the contents of your brain into an empty tank. The tank has a shape, more or less - has more or less defined edges, a bottom and sides. But what it mostly has is volume: a hungry space I've somehow got to fill.

You know what pulp is, Mr. Tallis? It's the flesh of a luscious fruit, mashed down into an incredible, half liquid richness. so saturated with flavor that it fills your whole body, not just your mouth.