For the rest, they shall represent the other Free Peoples of the World: Elves, Dwarves, and Men, Legolas shall be for the Elves; and Gimli son of Gloin for the Dwarves. They are willing to go at least...

For a Hero cannot triumph all the time. Sometimes he will be defeated, and how he faces that defeat is a test of his character.

Every decent man of our age must be a coward and a slave. That is his normal condition. Of that I am firmly persuaded. He is made and constructed to that very end. And not only at the present time owi...

Ever since my famous battle with Python, I've had a phobia of scaly reptilian creatures. (Especially if you include my stepmother, Hera. BOOM!)

Es hermosa y más que hermosa: es sorprendente. Lo negro en ella abunda; y es nocturno y profundo cuanto inspira. Sus ojos son de astros en que centellea vagamente el misterio, y su mirada ilumina como...

Don't wake me for the end of the world unless it has very good special effects.

Does the human heart know chasms so abysmal?

Did you seriously just stamp your foot? I thought girls only did that on TV.

Carter, not to be unkind, I said, but the last few months you've been seeing messages about Zia . Two weeks ago, you thought she was sending you a distress call in your mashed potatoes.It was a Z! Car...

But how nice it would be to know that some good Yankee woman - And there must be SOME good Yankee women. I don’t care what people say, they can’t all be bad! How nice it would be to know that they pul...

Ask me again, once we defeat Gaea.

April. Month of dust and lies.

Another fairy flew up, carrying a spear and wearing a helmet and not much else. I thought about asking why he had armor on his head and not his balls, but I didn’t think that was proper etiquette whil...

And what about us? Do you want a vampire boyfriend? He laughed bitterly. Because I forsee many romantic picnics in our future. You, drinking a virgin piña colada. Me, drinking the blood of a virgin.

All Julie has to do is explain to her friends that she's using it to individually seal each item that she throws out.Then they'd think she was a geek, I said.She will thank me later, Monk said.Why wou...

Ah, Princess, Dallben said, with a furrowed smile, a crown is more discomfort than adornment. If you have learned that, you have already learned much.

A junkie spends half his life waiting.

Probably derived from the old French : a troop of the devil’s horsemen.

[Eragon] wondered. , said Saphira,

All things are only transitory.