The Queen closed her eye and nodded. She opened it again, and there was a tear tracking down her face. I tried to be what I was meant to be, Father. It was never personal.
That’s kind of awesome, I said. Children frequently are, Michael said.
Such hats often signified humans who considered themselves important, which was adorable for the first few moments and trying ever after.
Stop where you are. He didn’t. He took a step toward me. So I shot him.
Spear and magic helmet, I said in my best Elmer Fudd voice. Be vewy, vewy quiet. We’re hunting vampires.
Sometimes you wake up, and there's a little voice inside your head that tells you that today is a special day. For a lot of kids, it sometimes happens on their birthday, and always on Christmas mornin...
Sometimes you don’t know the most important things, Tavi said. You believe them.
Sometimes I thought it might be nice not to make any choices. If I never had one, I could never screw it up.
So, ladies, if you ever have some conversation with your boyfriend or husband or brother or male friend, and you are telling him something perfectly obvious, and he comes away from it utterly clueless...
Screw up my life? He stared at me for a second and then said, deadpan, I'm a five-foot-three, thirty-seven-year-old, single, Jewish medical examiner who needs to pick up his lederhosen from the dry cl...
Punctuality is for people with nothing better to do,
People are likely to do the most ridiculously illogical things for the most incomprehensible of reasons.
One thing you can count on when visiting the Nevernever: you don't ever get bored.
One day, I told myself, one brave and magnificent day, I will actually be cool. I
Ohhhh, Molly said wisely. Those are fun-time handcuffs, not bad-time handcuffs. I gotcha.
Oh, dear. Oh dear? Bernard asked. She reached up and touched her throat, where Bernard’s ring still hung by its chain. Oh, dear. We’ve survived. We’re alive. And . . . and we’re wed. Bernard blinked a...
Now then Captain He turned back to Grim Your have questions, I answers, shall we see if they match?Please Grim said I appear to be your guest, have I you to thank for caring for me? Ferrus' shoulders...
Nobody can be bad at everything. There’s no such thing as a perfect screwup.
Nearly everyone underestimates how powerful the touch of another person's hand can be. The need to be touched is something so primal, so fundamentally a part of our existence as human beings that its...
My name is Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden. Conjure by it at your own risk.