“There was nothing I wished I'd said to him. There was nothing I wished I hadn't said.”
“For some reasonthen, I remember how Sam hated to be laughed at, and all of the times I did it anyway, because I wanted him to feel stupid, and I wonder how anybody can be cruel to someone they love. How can anyone do anything but love each other and be kind when at the end of it all, waiting quietly, sure as the dark at the end of the loveliest day, is only this?”
“Some people can't fit the mould that's made for them...They get squashed in. And it's hard for them to leave, but it's harder for them to stay. They have to find other ways to be.”
“Soon I will be older than him, but I'll always chase him anyway, like a little sister, and always he'll be running just along at the edges of things, and always he'll be turning a corner, just ahead.”
“When you want things to change, you have to do something different.”
“The sky was the colour of a sucked-out blue ice-pop”
“the Cristal had flowed and two bottles of Dom Perignon had been bought by her last client, making her boss a very happy man.”
“Somehow, after all, as the universe ebbs toward its final equilibrium in the featureless heat bath of maximum entropy, it manages to create interesting structures.”
“Holy symbols like crosses and blessed water occasionally have an effect, but are dependent upon the personal faith of the user. Most Hunters opt for violence over faith; we're kind of like soccer fans that way.”
“You're not who I thought you'd be, Cas."
"No?"
"Your so much better.”
“Of all reviews, the crushing review is the most popular, as being the most readable.”
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