Mark Tallen

“Loneliness will sit over our roofs with brooding wings.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“No tears, please. It's a waste of good suffering.”
― Clive Barker, The Hellbound Heart

“In the end--when all else is dust--loyalty to those we love is all we can carry with us to the grave. Faith--true faith--was trusting in that love.”
― Dan Simmons, The Fall of Hyperion

“After fifty-five years of dedicating his life and work to the story of ethical systems, Sol Weintraub had come to a single, unshakable conclusion: any allegiance to a deity or concept or universal principal which put obedience above decent behavior toward an innocent human being was evil.”
― Dan Simmons, Hyperion