Anjali Pasupathy

“And one of the reasons why he likes her is because she’s so different from him. She’s as big as four-fifths of five-eighths of fuck all, but she takes no bullshit from anyone. She even talks back to the Sarge, which is like watching a mouse bark at a pitbull.”
― M.R. Carey, The Girl with All the Gifts

“Tolkien disapproved of Lewis’s Narnia books because they worked by analogy, taking an existing myth and retelling it with different names and circumstances, whereas he felt that you should make your own myth out of whole cloth. But it’s not possible to read The Silmarillion without seeing how Sauron’s fall mirrors Satan’s. It’s only a question of how you triangulate your relationship to your source material.”
― M.R. Carey, The Girl With All the Gifts

“If I had a box full of all the evils of the world, I'd open it just a little way and push you inside. Then I'd close it again for always.”
― Mike Carey

“She likes the idea of saving Miss Justineau so much that it becomes her favourite thought. She thinks about it whenever she’s not thinking about anything else.”
― M.R. Carey, The Girl with All the Gifts