Caring about someone isn’t complicated. It isn’t easy. But it isn’t complicated, either. Kinda like lifting the engine block out of a car.

Nobody can be bad at everything. There’s no such thing as a perfect screwup.

I died. I died and someone made a clerical error and I am in Heaven.

Don’t call me a dinosaur. It isn’t fair to the dinosaurs. What did a dinosaur ever do to you?

Well, I never been to much school, you understand, but it seems to me that you’re assuming something you shouldn’t assume… that God sees the world like you do; one thing at a time, from...

It is a distinct pleasure to meet you, Steadholder.

Anger is just anger. It isn’t good. It isn’t bad. It just is. What you do with it is what matters. It’s like anything else. You can use it to build or to destroy. You...

She was possessed?

Oh, I forgot to mention it: My brother is the kind of man whom women stalk. In cooperative packs.

I’m amazing and studly, but I have limits.

[Mouse is] with us. The dog is a handicap-assist animal.”The kid lifted his eyebrows.”My mouth is partially paralyzed,” I said. “It makes it hard for me to read. He’s here to help me with the...

I let out a battle cry. Sure, a lot of people might have mistaken it for a sudden yelp of unmanly fear, but trust me. It was a battle cry.

Pain is a byproduct of life. That’s the truth. Life sometimes sucks. That’s true for everyone. But if you don’t face the pain and the suck, you don’t ever get the other things either. Laughter....

The human mind is not a terribly logical or consistent place.

…The next time I opened my eyes, I was in the morgue.This, all by itself, is enough to really ruin your day.I was lying on the examining table, and Butters, complete with his surgical gown...

I didn’t want to believe that killing was deep inside of me. I didn’t want to think about the part of me that took a dark joy in gathering all the power it could and...

Might as well go for broke, put on a black top hat and pipe in some organ music.

With a sense of humor like that, you could make a living as a garbage man anywhere in the country.

You can’t plan for everything or you never get started in the first place.

Life, Tavi reflected, seldom makes a gift of what one expects or plans for.

Love is another kind of power, which shouldn’t surprise you. Magic comes from emotions, among other things. And when two people are together, in that intimacy, when they really, selflessly love each other it changes...

You’re such a cynic,” Molly said.”I think cynics are playful and cute.

Apocalypse is a frame of mind.” [Nicodemus] said then. “A belief. A surrender to inevitability. It is a despair for the future. It is the death of hope.

It’s all right to be afraid. You just don’t let it stop you from doing your job.

There’s nothing that makes you more insane than family. Or more happy. Or more exasperated. Or more . . . secure.

Seedy wasn’t a fair description for the place, because seeds imply eventual regrowth and renewal.

On the whole, we’re a murderous race. According to Genesis, it took as few as four people to make the planet too crowded to stand, and the first murder was a fratricide. Genesis says that...

Insecurity, thy name is teenager.

Murphy caught that arm and continued the motion, using her own body as a fulcrum in a classic hip throw – except that Binder was facing in the opposite direction than usual for that technique.You...

Ack!” I said.Fearless master of the witty dialogue, that’s me.

I wouldn’t waste time worrying about a little mud on the boots.

Hope is a force of nature. Don’t let anyone tell you different.

The fire of my tribulations had not simply been pain to be endured. It had been an agent of transformation. After all that I’d been through, I’d changed. Not for the worse, I was pretty...

Maybe this was a male-female translation problem. I read an article once that said that when women have a conversation, they’re communicating on five levels. They follow the conversation that they’re actually having, the conversation...

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Or maybe this wasn’t a human-faerie translation problem at all. Maybe this was a male-female translation problem. I read an article once that said that when women have a conversation, they’re communicating on five levels....

I’m brilliant as well as skilled,” he said modestly. “It’s a great burden, all of that on top of my angelic good looks. But I try to soldier on as best I can.

It made me feel better. Mouse might not have been thesmartest creature on earth, but he was steady, kind, loyal, andwas possessed of the uncanny wisdom of beasts for knowingwhom to trust. I might not...

Harry,” Bob drawled, his eye lights flickering smugly, “what you know about women, I could juggle.

Many things are not as they seem: The worst things in life never are.

I don’t care about whose DNA has recombined with whose. When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching–they are your family.

You need to know where to go,’ Sanya said.’Yes,”And you are going to consult four large pizzas for guidance.”Yes,’ I said….’There is, I think, humour here which does not translate well from English into sanity.”That’s...

A man’s magic demonstrates what sort of person he is, what is held most deeply inside of him. There is no truer gauge of a man’s character than the way in which he employs his...

No one just starts giggling and wearing black and signs up to become a villainous monster. How the hell do you think it happens? It happens to people. Just people. They make questionable choices, for...

Yes, I was standing on nothing but congealed starlight. Yes, I was walking up through a savage storm, the wind threatening to tear me off and throw me into the freezing waters of Lake Michigan...

Laugh whenever you can. Keeps you from killing yourself when things are bad. That and vodka.

An errand is getting a tank of gas or picking up a carton of milk or something. It is not getting chased by flying purple pyromaniac gorillas hurling incendiary poo!

You can have everything in the world, but if you don’t have love, none of it means crap,” he said promptly. “Love is patient. Love is kind. Love always forgives, trusts, supports, and endures. Love...

Did you really save the world ?…- Mostly I was saving my own ass. Just happend that the world was in the same spot.

Know your enemy. Know yourself. Only then may you achieve victory.