One thing I've learned about vampires--they keep pulling new rabbits out of their cloaks. Big, fanged, carnivorous bunnies that'll eat your eyeballs if you're not paying attention.

There had to be a circle of Hell where you were eternally fourteen, eternally in junior high. One of the lower circles.

Prayer is our yearning for God, the cry of our poverty and misery, stretching out toward the throne of His divine mercy.

If you are waiting to be compelled before you could invest your time productively, then, it means you are not the owner of your life but the system that is compelling you.

I am graciously and joyfully living through each day.

The person she liked best didn't like her enough to want more of her, and she didn't want to pretend that wasn't awful.

Tell me what you want" he [Warner] says desperately. "Tell me what to do, " he says, "and I'll do it.

Writing itself does not know what it looks like while one is doing it, only when it's finished.

There are more social skills required to talk one-on-one [than to an audience]. You don't have to be socially fluid to talk to two thousand people.

My life didn't really begin until I met Ronnie.

Poor comfort all comfort: once what the mouse had spared Was enough, was delight, there where the heart was at home

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.