I’d prefer to see both knees on the ground. I mean, if you’re going to grovel, be the best groveler you can, right?

Words have power? That sounds like you're into some Harry Potter juju.

The best revenge is a life well lived.

Sometimes life is about being sad and doing things anyway. Sometimes it's about being hurt and doing things anyway. The point isn't perfection. The point is doing it anyway.

My job is to ensure the sanctity of this House. Ensuring the sanity of its Master seemed like a good start.

Consider the possibility that I made a mistake I regret-and that I'll continue to regret that mistake and try to convince you to give me another chance until the earth stops turning.

Family. Couldn't live with them, couldn't run a stake through them.

You string some letters together, and you make a word. You string some words together, and you make a sentence, then a paragraph, then a chapter. Words have power.

His lips so soft, yet so stern, he pressed his mouth to mine. "I will have both of you, " he said. "My Sentinel and my city. And the GP will learn exactly how stubborn we both can be.

If it was appropriate to judge a person based on her footwear - and it obviously was - I decided I liked her immediately.

Snug pants, bandeau-type corset, and trim, motorcycle jacket. It was a fabulous outfit, but it was so urban-fantasy book cover

Muses work all day long and then at night get together and dance...

The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.

I'm a very introverted guy, so I don't need to be around people for as long as someone who's very extroverted to get that sort of social fix per se.

Virginity, albeit some highly prize it, Compared with marriage, had you tried them both, Differs as much as wine and water doth.

When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.

I guess there were fewer differences between me and social psychologists than between me and other people in general

I do not want you to hear that I LOVE you, but I want you to feel it without me having to say.

Having my priorities in order has really helped me look better, fresher, and more relaxed.

Love simply is. That is the testament of Athena or Sherine or Hagia Sofia - love is. No definitions. Love and don't ask too many questions. Just love.