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Be yourself, until you bleed. — Mike Carey

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But Tom was not thinking about magic or struggle or the rest of his journey.

He was enjoying the game and the bright sun, and his heart was a child's heart.

But then, all grownup's hearts are children's hearts inside, if you can only find the catch that opens them. — Mike Carey

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Gabriel: This is a *travesty* of justice.
Michael: Justice is my father's prerogative. The rest of us ...
Lucifer: The rest of us can only do what we think is *right*. — Mike Carey

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

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I took a strong dislike to him right then to save time and effort later. — Mike Carey

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needs must when the devil drives — Mike Carey

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It's a measure of how far I've come that I didn't bother to say, "This is impossible."
I'd gotten the hang of it now.
-Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere (comics adaptation by Mike Carey and Glenn Fabry) — Mike Carey

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At least the smoke would give me a little cover; it was also choking me, making my eyes water and my lungs ache and spasm with each breath, but you can't have everything. — Mike Carey

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Words are the birds that break cover and show your enemy where you're hiding. — Mike Carey

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It was a beautiful day. About time. Way past time. But if the sunlight knew what the fuck it was shining on, would it bother to make the trip? — Mike Carey

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Far as I can see, we mostly exist as *ideas* in each other's heads. The way *you* see me. The way my *boss* sees me. The way the *waitress* at Lindy's sees me. — Mike Carey

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Vanessa Rey chose the words for her own headstone, taking her theme from the Bhagavad Gita. "Certain is death, for the living, certain is life, for the dead." Think about that. — Mike Carey

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You're a vampire, Richie. And I've got a gun the size of Nebraska. What's the worst that could happen? — Mike Carey

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I was tied to this place by the loose elastic of ancient guilt, and every so often the pull became too insistent to ignore. — Mike Carey

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I'll be fine ' Pen told me a little curtly. 'Where are you going anyway '
'The United States. Alabama.'
'Looking for a change of scene '
'Looking for a dead woman.'
'Get Jenna-Jane Mulbridge to come down here and I'll make you one. — Mike Carey

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Frank meditates?"
She grinned. "How'd you think he got that laid-back? We've got the only Zen security guard in London. Only he's really a butterfly dreaming he's a security guard. — Mike Carey

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When you're a mile outside the limits of your competence, there is some comfort to be had in sounding like you know what you're doing. — Mike Carey

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On into the void he flies, unafraid. There is nothing in mere absence that can cow him. Or loneliness. Or the lack of maps and charts. For he is his own path. And he sees by his own light. We watch him from a great distance. From a vantage point no less subjective, no less absolute. And so it's hard to tell whether he imposes himself on the emptiness, or becomes it. — Mike Carey

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Beliefs are collars to which leashes can be attached — Mike Carey

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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. — Mike Carey

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Human beings take social stances, and if you're respectful of all human beings, you have to decide what you're going to do and why you're going to do it. — Mike Carey

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

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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. — Mike Carey

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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. — Mike Carey

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When God has abandoned you and the devil is snapping at your heels, what you really need on your side is a bigger devil. — Mike Carey

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

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Some kind of worship of the state, as though the state was somehow different from the schmucks who run it. Can't say I'm keen. — Mike Carey

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

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It wasn't what I was expecting, but like I've always said: if life gives you lemmings, jump off a cliff. — Mike Carey

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The only consolation was that - to the religious mind - adversity is good for the soul. — Mike Carey

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Happy Families. What's that all about, eh? A bloody busted flush is what it is. You surround yourself with other people so the night doesn't seem quite so dark. Shout down the sound of the wind with arguments about whose turn it is to wash the dishes. Best not to kid yourself. Best not to give any hostages to fortune. You're on your own in the end. Always. Where else would you want to be? — Mike Carey

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Yahweh: You've been unhappy because you've desired things that cannot be.
Lucifer: That's what desire IS. The need for what we can't have. The need for what's readily available is called greed. — Mike Carey

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I will withhold death from you as long as you obey my one command. Bow down to no one. Worship no one. Not even me. Do you understand? — Mike Carey

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The world is a book. Some words stand out from the page. — Mike Carey

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I could dodge the kick, but the stable door was already down - and I hadn't even realised it until I saw the splinters. — Mike Carey

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

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

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Mona: "There's this girl who's following me around. I've been trying to lose her."
Elaine: "Black hair and amazing eye shadow, right? You can't lose her, Mona. But you're okay if we stick together. Anyone who's with me she sort of ignores. — Mike Carey

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Nothing matters more than the stories we tell ourselves to explain the world. — Mike Carey

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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. — Mike Carey

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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. — Mike Carey

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But Susan didn't have a yellow pages, so she'd gone online instead, and Juliet's Web site had been the first to come up. I wasn't surprised. It was sometimes the first to come up when your search string was "Chinese restaurants" or "plumbers." I was pretty sure she'd done something to Google that was both illegal and supernatural. — Mike Carey

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Grudging praise is the most flattering of all. — Mike Carey

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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. — Mike Carey

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My mum's getting married," said Cheryl. "Again. At the Brompton Oratory. Fourth time around the track, this is. They don't say 'Till death us do part' for my mum; they say 'Who's holding ticket number twenty-three? — Mike Carey

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Even at its worst, there are tiny holes in the midnight canopy of my bad luck. — Mike Carey

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Could it hurt to take a look? The answer was yes, of course. It's always yes. But I went anyway. — Mike Carey

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I think Louisville will be fired up for this game. They might be in revenge mode. But, this time of the year records, don't mean much. Anything can happen. — Mike Carey

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You read any Greek myths, puppy? The one about the gorgon Medusa, particularly? I used to wonder what could be so terrible that you couldn't survive even looking at it.
Until I got a little older and I figured out the obvious answer.
Everything. — Mike Carey

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The trip here had been rough going - Juliet drove with a focused aggression that made most road-rage incidents seem like brief, contemplative interludes, and she punished the sleek, overpowered sports car as though it had done her some terrible harm - but it didn't seem to have dented her appetite at all. — Mike Carey

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Elaine: He saved my life twice. He's the only grown-up I know who keeps his promises.
Michael: Yes. It is a point of pride with him. But please - don't mistake it for a virtue. — Mike Carey

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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. — Mike Carey

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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. — Mike Carey

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There *is* no mortal sin. There are only *souls*, lost in a maze that someone *else* has made for them. — Mike Carey

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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. — Mike Carey

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It's not a holiday until you overdo it! — Mike Carey

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And there's a darker side to Peckham, too, once you get in deep: a side I like a lot more, because I identify with the past and prefer even worm-eaten wood to wipe-clean plastic. — Mike Carey

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That's what I've never been able to get about religion: that charmless combination of altruism and insanity. Give me a cynical, self-interested bastard any day of the week; at least you can play chicken with him and know he'll stick to the rules. — Mike Carey

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And send not to ask for whom the fucking bell tolls, because you're not going to like the answer. — Mike Carey

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It was a hot, moist armpit of a night... — Mike Carey

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Control what people believe, and you control what they do. Who they are. The world is only the aggregate of human perception. Stories are scalpels that allow us to operate on those perceptions. — Mike Carey

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You use the word "Infinity" very glibly ... Have you ever been there? Time and space are extensions of the mind, the will. Which means that infinity is a purely local phenomenon. You can turn over a stone and find it crawling there. Or you can make it yourself out of whatever materials are at hand. — Mike Carey

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I know that if a team had a derogatory name for African Americans, I would help those who helped extinguish that name. I have quite a few friends who are Native Americans. And even if I didn't have Native American friends, the name of the team is disrespectful. — Mike Carey

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All the waters in the oceans won't fill a bucket with a hole in it — Mike Carey

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It does no good to run. And it does no good to hide. But I know what it's like. Your brain shuts down, and you follow your instincts. Or, at least, you think you do. But you know what you're really doing? When you flee through the night, or crawl into your little bolt-hole? You know what's really guiding you? Controlling you? Pushing you on? Genre conventions. — Mike Carey

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Steven lets go of his humanity with much more relief than fear. It was an awkward burden to carry at the best of times. — Mike Carey

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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. — Mike Carey

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Have you never fantasized about facing him as an equal? — Mike Carey

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

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An excellent indie horror book with a wholly original premise. — Mike Carey

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They used to call the devil the father of lies. But for someone whose sin is meant to be pride, you'd think that lying would leave something of a sour taste. So my theory is that when the devil wants to get something out of you, he doesn't lie at all. He tells you the exact, literal truth. And he lets you find your own way to hell. — Mike Carey

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When a book is read an irrevocable thing happens - a murder, followed by an imposture. The story in the mind murders the story on the page, and takes its place. — Mike Carey

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Truth isn't handed *down*, brother. You beat it out with *hammers* and anneal it in your own *blood*. — Mike Carey

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The time of human domination on Earth is barely a drop in the ocean of geological time, and it takes a lot to make a ripple in that ocean. — Mike Carey