It takes four angels to oversee an apocalypse: a recorder to make the book that would be scripture in the new world; a preserver to comfort and save …

- Chris Adrian

But as surely as the moon rises and the sun sets, depravity passes down through the ages, because there is always a gap between who we are and who we…

- Chris Adrian

If there’s a magic pony in the story, chances are I’ll read it.

- Chris Adrian

If I showed you what was in my heart," she said, "it would burn you to a cinder. "I've tried to burn you similarly," it said, "but you never even not…

- Chris Adrian

It seemed a marvel to her that any mortal should suffer for lack of love, and yet she had never known a mortal who didn't feel unloved. There was eno…

- Chris Adrian

I am...sad and angry. Why is my spirit so sad and angry? I look back at my life and all I can remember is rage and rage and rage.

- Chris Adrian

I want to be a good creature for reasons beyond sharing a life with a good man.

- Chris Adrian

When people ask me which I would rather give up, writing or medicine, it's like being asked which eye I'd prefer to have poked out with a spoon: neit…

- Chris Adrian