“It didn’t need to be light to be day.”

“At the heel end of the day, I need my glass of wine. Christmas lights for the brain.”

“You're good for me," I say. "The light to my shade.""Then you're the night to my day. A person needs both, you know.”

“If Apollo caught sight of him outside or near a window during the light of day, Talon would be nothing more than a strip of fried bacon on the sidewalk. Extra-crispy Celt didn’t appeal to him in the least.’ (Talon)”

“But the point about that kind of stuff was that you needed someone around to be proudly independent and self-reliant. People who didn’t need people needed people around to know that they were the kind of people who didn’t need people.”

“on the morning of many a first spring day...the woods were bathed in so pure and bright a light as would have waked the dead. There needs no stronger proof of immortality.”