Marjorie M. Liu quotes:

Miri forced herself to remain very still. Never run from immortals, she remembered; her favorite line from a favorite movie. Never run.

He was a hot, hot former priest and she wanted to pull a Thorn Birds on his ass.

I listened to the wind bury winter; and when I tasted his grace, his grace had no name; only, night became something else in his presence, as though darkness had a soul, here, swaying to heartbeats roaring.

Moscow was, as some said, the most beautiful mistress a man could ever want, but never cross her: like any good woman, she might just cut off your balls for the hell of it.

All of us change. Everyone in this world, from birth to death, becomes someone new. Again and again, we are remade.

Miracles pass and I see. Great wonders speak and I listen.

Religion was no cure for dysfunction.

How's his appendix?""Like crap. They almost didn't catch it in time, and he's still doing the ass-plant in a hospital bed, beingdoted on by an army of hot nurses. Makes me sick.""Maybeyou should rupture something.""Any more of these stories out of you and I just might.

Bai Shen did not move. He gazed down at Miri, and she could still see the fear, but this time it was mixed with guilt and deep raging sorrow that she could only guess had less to do with her, and everything to do with setting one's heart on a plan that had proven itself to be The Dumbest Move Alive.

Being alone was easier. No risk, just loneliness. No one ever died from that.

I am vulnerable, starved for kindness. And when I receive it, I lose my mind.

I've got a black-belt in crazy, and I know where you live.

Expect the unexpected, my mother once said. Because the unexpected most certainly will be expecting you.