Little girls who hang around with vampires need to get used to dead things...In fact, little girls who hang around with vampires already are with dead things.

Number one rule for fiction: Coincidence can be used to worsen a characters predicament, but never to solve his problems.

Then, early, early, early in the morning-just as in countless Disney films-I heard a rooster crow. But guess what? They don't do it just once.

Mothers are legendary for being able to read the thoughts of their children at just the right moment.

If you don't like vampire games, don't play

There, close enough to spit on--if I'd been a barbarian and inclined to spit--was the dragon.

People always talk about good, fresh country air, but I kept getting wiffs of something that was neither good nor fresh but definitely country.

if Saint Bruce doesn't like your poem, he chops your head off.

Those Grimm brothers," she said with a sigh, "they'll never amount to anything." And she was right because all they ever became was writers.

The wolf sniffed beneath the door to be sure this was a human cottage. The scent was undeniable. No pigs, except in bacon form. The wolf thought bacon form was a very sensible way for pigs to behave.

They'd poisoned me, dammit. Probably to trade my dead body to the barbarians for Wulfgar's safe return. Or maybe just for the fun of it.

I remind myself how people with a low propensity for success whose behavior is guided by fear, have a low propensity for success.

Does talking to yourself in the voice of your fictional character count as being social?

At the bottom of a good deal of the bravery that appears in the world there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they cannot face public opinion.

The way to encourage people to be accountable is to engage the responsible, accountable, trustworthy part of their brain.

I like being mistaken for someone useful.

Some of my fear and anxieties surrounding faith, I think, provides some good comedy for my act.

The fact is, the media never gets off the interstate unless there's a major explosion.

They could steam up windows with their kisses, but as soon as they started using their mouths for other things—like talking—everything got so complicated.

I don’t count life as life without love

Everything hinges on education. Without it, you can't advocate for proper health care, for housing, for a civil rights bill that ensures your rights.