~”The commandment was simple, and it was this: thou shalt kill humans.” ~ David Wellington, Overwinter.

~”This may be my only chance to see humans before these two are made into fertilizer for Moonwind’s rosebushes.” ~ Tamora Pierce, The Realms of the Gods.

~”There are no more gates, only hinges clinging to the walls like broken spiders.  I can look all the way up the High Street to where it curves like a spine, obscuring the Water Gate and the strait beyond. Men on what’s left of the towers watch me enter the gravetown, blades shouldered, careful.” ~ J. Anderson Coats, The Wicked and the Just.

~”In the foul rag-and-bone shop of the heart.”~ Yeats, The Circus Animals

~”Oh Lonesome’s a bad place To get crowded into.” ~~ Kenneth Patchen

~”A night flowing with birds, a ragged moon, And in broad day, the midnight come again!” ~~Theodore Roethke, In a Dark Time.

~”Distilled, Almost to jelly with the act of fear.” ~~ Shakespeare, Hamlet.

~And forty pounds be theirs, a pretty sum, For sending such a rogue to kingdom come.” ~~Peter Pindar

~”The public be damned.” ~~ Wm. Henry Vanderbilt