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.

Giannine--What are they going to do: smack me on the head with a pamplet?

Never live life without a hope.

The truly noble heart sacrifices itself for others’ good, to defend the weak and the good against evil. To a heart like this, a heart devoted to chivalry, courage is a matter of form.

And suddenly you're all i need the reason why I smile<3

For capitalism, war and peace are business and nothing but business.

Unconfusion submits its confusion to proof; it's not a Herod's oath that cannot change.

Before you measure the years, you measure the days.

I don't think anywhere you go to get news is news anymore. It is commentary, but mostly it is the advancement of agenda.

You are a dream; I hope I never meet you.

Look not to a woman's head for her brains, but rather to her heart.

Too much work, too much vacation, too much of any one thing is unsound.