I found that the only way I could control this sorrow was not to think of [it] at all, which was almost as painful as the loss itself.
The train is roaring toward you and the villain is twirling his moustache and you're fussing that he's tied you to the tracks with the wrong kind of rope.
The Lone Ranger of vampires. Did that make me Tonto?
Stop it. This is me, remember? We've been thrown up by the same puppies. - Ossin
[Gonturan] is a true friend, but a friend with thoughts of her own, and the thoughts of others are dangerous.
It is not so easy as running and not running.
She had not meant to name them, but she could not help herself; and having done so she thought, Let their names be symbols that their lives are worth the keeping. Let them struggle a little the harder...
It was Ebon's turn now, and he stepped forward and gave the pegasus' great clarion neigh -- far more like a trumpet than a horse's neigh; hollow bones are wonderful for resonance -- and swept his wing...
The rich smell of the rose was almost visible; I fancied it lent a rosy edge to the shadows cast by the firelight.
The big difference between my mom and me-- besides the fact that she is dead normal and I'm a magic-handling freak-- is that she's the real thing. She may have a slight problem seeing other people's p...
It is all very well to say that all princesses are good and beautiful and charming; but this is usually a determined optimism on everybody's part rather than the truth. After all, if a girl is a princ...
It is not a comfortable passion.
Cats were often familiars to workers of magic because to anyone used to wrestling with self-willed, wayward, devious magic--which was what all magic was--it was rather soothing to have all the same qu...
The most serious drawback to the telling-nothing approach is that it made that much more of a mystery of what had happened, and the nature of gossip abhors a vacuum of the unexplained.
No wonder he'd never really finished becoming one of us. We just thought it was because he was half Japanese, and lived in a huge house on the other side of town with a dad who was never home and who...
Despair was a private weakness she could not afford to indulge.
We kings do develop a certain ability to recognize objects under our noses.
I feel like a potato that's recently been mashed,she said.
Vampires do breathe, by the way, but their chests don't move like humans'. Have you ever lain in the arms of your sweetheart and tried to match your breathing to his, or hers? You do it automatically....
Tiny fists can hurt quite a lot when they hit you in the face.