Emily Persephone

“Grown-ups don't look like grown-ups on the inside either. Outside, they're big and thoughtless and they always know what they're doing. Inside, they look just like they always have. Like they did when they were your age. Truth is, there aren't any grown-ups. Not one, in the whole wide world.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

“All is death, woman. All is pain. Love breeds loss. Isolation breeds resentment. No matter which way we turn, we are beaten. Our only true inheritance is death. And our only legacy, dust.”
― Clive Barker, The Scarlet Gospels

“It'd be a funny old world, he reflected, if demons went round trusting one another.”
― Terry Pratchet and Neil Gaiman

“She wanted nothing that he could offer her, except perhaps his absence.”
― Clive Barker, The Hellbound Heart