Granny was an old-fashioned witch. She didn’t do good for people, she did right by them.

And sin, young man, is when you treat people like things.

When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they're getting worried that they won't like the truth.

It’s most unfair. Once people find out you’re a vampire they act as if you’re some kind of monster.

He grinned. It was the sort of grin that Agnes supposed was called infectious but, then, so was measles.

The smug mask of virtue triumphant could be almost as horrible as the face of wickedness revealed.

You make me crazy, ” she muttered as she obeyed. “Likewise, ” he countered.

They chose to regard it as a miraculous preservation.

Whereas you have someone like Houdini, who works really, really hard to get really, really famous, and then has actual intellectual ideas that he puts into the culture that stay there.

Self care isn't selfish. It's self esteem.

It’s funny – my married friends tell me all the time, 'What you have is so much easier.' When you’re doing it on your own, you don't have to [argue over] how you're raising the kids.

You don't need to buy expensive cosmetics; almost anything will do if you know how to apply it.

To a longer and worse life, a shorter and better is by all means to be preferred.

Everyone can probably do at least one thing better than ten thousand other people.

The biggest problems were to do with... well, to get that successful when you're so young, it attracts hangers-on, parasites, people who want to feed off you.

When any calamity is suffered, the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.