She hissed, right there behind my ear, and I had the horrible idea she was spitting maggots into my hair. Why maggots were a problem when I was about…

- C.E. Murphy

I suppose I knew on an intellectual level that graves weren't especially made for getting out of. I mean, you start with a hermetically sealed casket…

- C.E. Murphy

Logic was puny in the face of my wrath. Logic was puny and magic was mighty: I had just gotten rebirthed, refilled and renewed, and was fast on my wa…

- C.E. Murphy

friends don't threaten friends' distributor caps

- C.E. Murphy

To my embarrassment, I was crying again. Real girl tears for the second time, these ones born out of frustration. That didn't happen to me very often…

- C.E. Murphy

Don’t be sorry. Be good. Be right. Be a hero.

- C.E. Murphy

start with one true thing

- C.E. Murphy

They're constants, aren't they?" ... "Books are. That's why we like them so much. They seem immutable. They're not, of course. Not from the author's …

- C.E. Murphy

I'm not a goddamned faith healer! I don't talk to God! I'm a mechanic and her goddamned engine was broken! --Joanne

- C.E. Murphy