Book: Cold city

Beasts bad thing is that sometimes they look like people.

Any plan is like a house of cards - change one detail or touch a card, and all crumble.

Smart girl. Playing with fire, I want it to burn.

- I think you were a good girl, ' she said to Tanya. - Life was a good girl until I discovered something bad, and you liked it.

All of us attracts what we fear. Attracts able to protect yourself from this, once you get inside, loving it, becoming a part of it.

I will protect you from death. I'm not afraid of her. We have so long been enemies, that now more than friends.

Death is still, who to pick up - an old man or a child. But she's got her favorites. And those whom she loves, to live forever.

- I thank you.
- Yes? What?
- Jewellery, lie, yellowed pages, dried flowers, memories of the past, useless quotations, idle hands, beads, buttons, and mischief.

She looked at herself on the dirty dress, bloodied knees.
- I was not a good day. The hangover is still not gone, my friends are dead, ginger ale crashed...
- Then let's try to fix your day.