And have her back by midnight. " "Is that some powerful Caster hour?" "No. It's her curfew.

I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.

Mortals. I envy you. You think you can change things. Stop the universe. Undo what was done long before you came along. You are such beautiful creatures.

The right thing and the easy thing are never the same.

Knowing you don't have much time left changes things. You get kind of philosophical. And you figure things out-more like, they figure themselves out-and everything gets real clear.

There are no coincidences.

Because saving the people you love isn't stupid. It isn't even a choice

Who can judge the judge?

I'll love you until the day after forever.

It almost felt like she was sucking it all out of me, like she sucked on that sticky red lollipop, the one she kept licking as she drove.

the whole way down, I was only thinking one thing . . . L E N A

You couldn't be romantic if your life depended on it." "You know what's lucky? Most bad guys don't ask you to be romantic on command, so that probably won't matter.

Only human beings have come to a point where they no longer know why they exist.

If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me I've got to get out.

I would ban sweets from school - but this pressure to bring in healthy food is too much.

There arose a belief in style - and in banality. Banality encompassed politics, too, because it was a common belief that politics were not worthy of art.

Love people enough to tell them the truth and respect them enough to trust that they can handle it.

When he looked at me, his eyes positively twinkled. Christ. I was screwed. Eyes were twinkling at me.

I like Chicago. It's a great city. It's always fun to revisit it.

The supreme task of the Church is the evangelization of the world.

It isn't the past which holds us back, it's the future; and how we undermine it, today.