My parents can take themselves off on a scenic tour of hell before they tell me who my friends will be, Gan said pleasantly.
Love now–a good, solid love is something infinitely rarer and more difficult to maintain, because you don’t know everything your partner is feeling. Love takes work. Love means being able to apologize...
Learn the wisdom of the Hound. Always rest, eat, and play when you can, because the universe conspires to keep you from doing any of these things nearly as often as you would like.
I’m the leader of this herd of cats, she responded. I doubt my sanity every day.
It's only gossip if you repeat it. Until then, it's gathering information.
He’d parted reluctantly from Amily, thinking again with envy of Lena and Bear. One thing that they hadn’t been forced to deal with during their courtship was other people . . . keeping an eye on them....
He held out the bottle. Clarice’s hand was steady as she took it from him. , she thought distantly. She tried to be horrified at the thought, but she couldn’t manage it.
Genius will only take you to 'good.' Practice will take you to 'Master.
Eric could teach Hosea the way to call his magic. He could teach him that Eric’s was the only right way, teach Hosea to do only as Eric had done and could do, and no more. But that was not what it mea...
Emperor held court from his Iron Throne, made from the personal weapons of all those monarchs the Emperors of the past had conquered and deposed, each glazed and guarded against rust. The throne itsel...
Doctor MacKenzie says Sometimes I think the Victorians had the right idea. When you lost a family member back then you were suppose to be in full mourning, dress in nothing but black, for a whole year...
Clarice concentrated on taking deep breaths. Men did not burst into tears, no matter how terrible the tragedy.
Be careful when someone repeats something too often; things that are repeated often enough can start to seem to be true, even when they are not.
Although you feel relief now, this is likely to be the source of many sleepless nights for you. You will lie awake, look upon your heart, and find it unlovely. You will be certain that (...) you are t...
Sometimes good people [are] helpless... terrible things happen... to good people... there [are] sad endings as well as happy ones.
An untutored lout with a sledgehammer could kill you just as dead as an assassin with a stiletto.
You jackass. We're all going to die here. You know that, right?' Harrier said.Yeah, Eugens said shakily. '...Guess I might as well die here with you as out on the desert with a bunch of other jackasse...
You find them in any Kingdom, she said, if you look hard enough. Young men, and young women, too, who believe that they are in love with evil, death, and darkness, but in fact, are in love with myster...
There are no excuses, he said at last. But there are reasons. Reasons why we are what we are. Reasons why we do not have to stay that way.
There are always people who aren’t human, who think the only thing in the world that matters is themselves.
