“a story is ready when it falls from your face”

“What’s that thing when someone gets a knock on the head and suddenly can’t remember anything about himself?’Death,’ said the barman, his face a mask of disapproval.”

“I knew books could see people around them, they ground their tiny teeth, tried to rattle like windows, stories to tell.”

“From space this Earth is incandescent with abominations - the gods write their signature in our entrails”

“It’s hard for people to stampede when they’re strutting”

“What happens when the hitcher and the driver are equally murderous?”

“Life and death have equal authority in nature. When laws contradict so fundamentally they cause mere confusion in the average soul ”