From the window, I watch the city and the freeway. In the distance, the sky-rises look like mystic spires, unbearably close and far. I want to pick t….

The world is full of unused corners..

Once, I ordered two thousand lady bugs from the local garden center and set them loose in the atrium. I sprinkled marigold seeds in the ficus planter….

Intention is one of the most powerful forces there is. What you mean when you do a thing will always determine the outcome. The law creates the world..

But what Davenport had been born into had taken so much from her, leaving her with just the wickedest and the worst. Her father had given her life, a….

The hours spool out like a ribbon I can't find the end of..

It's strange, but seeing something broken is somehow worse when you can tell that it used to be beautiful..

Once, my mother told a whole host of angels that she’d rather die than go back to a man she didn’t love..

All great acts are ruled by intention. What you mean is what you get..

The treachery of demons is nothing compared to the betrayal of an angel..

I wanted it in the way you sometimes want to jump into very cold water, even though you know it won't feel good. I wanted to go numb. To see what it ….

You presume to name those who have no name. We are pandemonium and disaster. We are the dancing, gibbering horror of the world..

That was the thing about being bereaved. People were overcome with sympathy. They did things for you without even considering whether or not it was t….

The fact is, the contest has always been invulnerability, and even when you win, you still lose..

I've never been impulsive. It's always been in my nature to consider things carefully and then decide upon the best solution. Except, sometimes the c….

I fell headfirst into a sinkhole of pretty things, and the world inside your eyelids is just as big as the one outside..

People make decisions, and maybe you don't always agree, but those choices are still their own..

All my life, I've understood the nature of where I come from, but I never thought it might be wicked until now..

Let me tell you a little bit about demons. They love pain and other people’s misery. They lie when it suits them and don’t see anything wrong with it….

I had only to remember that centuries before, men fell in battle for the daughter of Troy, that passions carried greater weight than decorum. It took….

The things I had were mine and some of them were broken, but they were real. They were so very far from nothing..