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Michael: There's nothing here to fear.Lucifer: Well, there's always the truth.

~ Mike Carey

Mike Carey Fear Lucifer Truth

Fear is a serviceable tool, I suppose. Like the stalls in a battery farm. If you want to keep people from their collective strength, make them too afraid of each other to ever meet or talk.

~ Mike Carey

Mike Carey Fear

Those heart-hammering nightmares that start to lose coherence even as you're waking up from them, but that still manage to leave their moldering fingerprints all across your day.

~ Mike Carey

Mike Carey Dreams Nightmares

You know what it's like to *lose* yourself in a story. We have brother and sister *souls*.

~ Mike Carey

Mike Carey Reading Stories

Because all the waters of the ocean won't fill a bucket with a hole in it. And that's their fall, and that's their fellowship. Desire. The hole in the bucket: the gulf of yearning into which the soul empties itself.

~ Mike Carey

Mike Carey Desire

It was a hot, moist armpit of a night...

~ Mike Carey

Mike Carey Humorous

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

Mike Carey Evil Hate Pandora Pandora S Box The Girl With All The Gifts

So what I’m getting at is this. Okay, maybe it’s cold in the grave. Maybe you come out of the light and you think, Fuck your mother, this is bad. This is worse than anything I would have guessed. But the trick is to clench your teeth, get a running start and dive.When I hit that other country, from whose bourne no traveller back-pedals, I’m going to be moving fast. I’m gambling that the first ten seconds or so will be the worst.

~ Mike Carey

Mike Carey Inspirational Attitude

All stories are lies. But good stories are lies made from light and fire. And they lift our hearts out of the dust, and out of the grave.

~ Mike Carey

Mike Carey Lucifer Stories

You know what pulp is, Mr. Tallis? It's the flesh of a luscious fruit, mashed down into an incredible, half liquid richness. so saturated with flavor that it fills your whole body, not just your mouth.

~ Mike Carey

Mike Carey Books Pop Culture Pulp Fiction Reading Stories Writing

We make our own monsters, then fear them for what they show us about ourselves.

~ Mike Carey

Mike Carey Creation Frankenstein Monsters

No, there are no special places in hell. Hell is a democracy.

~ Mike Carey

Mike Carey Hell Lucifer

I have stared into the light and you are all my shadows.

~ Mike Carey

Mike Carey Regret

You move on. You move back. On because you're always getting older, back because there's always a set of habits and routines to catch you and suck you back in when your guard is down.

~ Mike Carey

Mike Carey Growing Up Habits Moving On

The trouble is, writing the damn thing is like unscrewing your skull and pouring the contents of your brain into an empty tank. The tank has a shape, more or less - has more or less defined edges, a bottom and sides. But what it mostly has is volume: a hungry space I've somehow got to fill.

~ Mike Carey

Mike Carey Writing Writing Process

Beliefs are collars to which leashes can be attached

~ Mike Carey

Mike Carey Beliefs

And for Peter... well, sometimes cruelty is kindness in disguise. Sometimes pain is the best teacher. Sometimes it does you no harm to realize that there's a limit to what you can get away with.

~ Mike Carey

Mike Carey Cruelty Life Pain
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