She tortured everybody around her, but only because she was more tortured than anyone.

You don’t learn about yourself by being alone, you learn about yourself from other people.

If there's a single lesson that life teaches us, it's that wishing doesn't make it so.

You didn’t get the quest you wanted, you got the one you could do.

He who completes a quest does not merely find something. He becomes something.

The danger would be going back, or staying still. The only way out was through. The past was ruins, but the present was still in play.

I have no doubt there are magician psychopaths, and magician serial killers. I doubt Brakebills admissions is very good at screening for those.

That was the thing about the world: it wasn't that things were harder than you thought they were going to be, it was that they were hard in ways that you didn't expect.

It's time to live with what we have and mourn what we lost.

By now he had learned enough to know that when he was getting annoyed at somebody else, it was usually because there was something that he himself should be doing, and he wasn't doing it.

Don't take anyone's writing advice too seriously.

Ohana means family - no one gets left behind, and no one is ever forgotten.' <3

The power of unfulfilled desires is the root of all man's slavery

We'd better get. But y'all have a nice night, ' I say. Apparently, fear turns me Texan. A startling personality insight that I'll jot down later if I'm not dead in a ditch.

I decided to tell the truth even if it meant being pointed at.

I have a private plane. But I fly commercial when I go to environmental conferences.

There have been women in the past far more daring than we would need to be now, who ventured all and gained a little, but survived after all.

I am trying to break free from my stripes addiction, but the pull is strong! I need help buying non-stripes.

I walk into a room Just as cool as you please, And to a man, The fellows stand or Fall down on their knees.

Women are more than half of our globe, more than half of our promise and potential. And we have been not only underusing that resource but suppressing it.

Don't let tobacco companies make the choices for you... they care about their own well-being, not yours