Slaying dragons, melting witches, and banishing demons is all fun and games until someone loses a sidekick—then it’s personal. The bad guy isn’t just the “bad guy” anymore, he’s the BAD GUY!

You don’t win battles with hate. Anger and hate can make you brave, make you strong, but they also make you stupid. You end up tripping over your own two feet.

Sometimes the price of dreams is achieving them.

Power rises to the top like cream and dominates the weak with cruelty disguised as -- and often even believed to be -- benevolence.

When you expect nothing from the world - not the light of the sun, the wet of water, nor the air to breathe - everything is a wonder and every moment a gift.

See, that’s the difference,” Mauvin said. “I suffer a loss and people console me. Royce suffers a loss and whole towns evacuate.

People are afraid of what they do not understand.

The idea of how others see you becomes more important than the reality of you.

You accidentally punched him?” Wyatt asked, suppressing a chuckle. “I’m not sure you have a full understanding of the whole bodyguard thing.

One truth doesn't refute another. Truth doesn't lie in the object, but in how we see it.

If this hast been done to language, I fear to know the fate of all else.

There's a lot of pride involved in my refusal to believe in god.

When I was a child, I read books. My reading was not indiscriminate. I preferred books that were old and thick and hard. I made vocabulary lists.

God does not care where you pray. He only cares what is in your heart.

Where is your Revolutionary spirit?""Beheaded, " Celeste said.

We have to distrust each other. It's our only defense against betrayal.

Facebook's new relationship status option: "No longer able to interact with actual people"

But we were all feeling that bit shagged and fagged and fashed, it having been an evening of some small energy expenditure.

This is probably the biggest environmental disaster we have ever faced in this country. It is certainly the biggest oil spill and we are responding with the biggest environmental response.

I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed.

Seriously, I don't know any American girl who can resist an English accent.