Bunny

“That peril, suffering, and fear prove life is a squalid struggle with no point, since it always ends in loss. He thinks—and you’ve said so too, Colin—that it proves if there is a God, he’s a sadistic war criminal, a bystander who watches while children drown. But that’s not what it proves. What it proves is that acts of love and sacrifice have real value—that they’re the only currency that matters.”
― Joe Hill, King Sorrow

“No one needed a magic wardrobe that opened into Narnia if they had a library card; if you had a library card, you had a thousand magic wardrobes to choose from, ten thousand.”
― Joe Hill, King Sorrow

“Donna felt something hardening behind her breastbone, like a petrified organ. She had heard cancers could be as hard as slate, as hard as bone. The rage in her chest was harder.”
― Joe Hill, King Sorrow

“Your mistake,' King Sorrow said from Donna's mouth, his voice a good-humored, reverberating rumble, 'was believing you had any power to begin with... You want to know where I was born? I hatched in the cauldron of Mount Hekla, five thousand years before Christ. Upon my birth, the volcano erupted and choked the world with so much darkness and ash your ancestors, a gang of pitiful and incestuous monkeys, believed the time of judgment was at hand. And they were right, mate. It's been a time of judgment every since... and I am the judge.”
― Joe Hill, King Sorrow