Well,I hope you like the ring." He held it out to me, he velvet lid still closed. "My mom hates it." "I'm sure I'll love it,then," I said, and he laughed.

This is the way the world ends; not with a bang or a whimper, but with zombies breaking down the back door.

Mark my words, Princess,” Loki said. “One day, you’ll be madly in love with me.

I don't need love or a man to complete me,and someday, you'll find that true for yourself. Suitors will come and go, but you will remain.

I don't want only one night. I want all the nights. I want all of you, forever.

Sometimes it seems to me that that’s all my life has been, a series of things that I loved deeply that I could never have.

Being liked for the way you looked is worse than not being liked at all.

When something is important to you, you make sure its safe.

My only experience with dances was what I had seen on TV, but it really wasn’t that far off. The theme appeared to be “Crepe Paper in the Gymnasium,” and they had mastered it perfectly.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that you can't live somebody else's life for them. They have to make their own choices, and sometimes all we can do is learn to live with them.

Everything I went through," he said. "For you. It was worth it.

Fear is felt by writers at every level. Anxiety accompanies the first word they put on paper and the last.

Why write a song when no one can play the notes or understand the lyrics?

I have always seen talented person being ignored.

If we get everything that we want we will soon want nothing that we get.

Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind filling it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

You can't possibly prepare for what happens to you the day you hit No. 1 and people treat you differently.

Richard Pilbrow's lighting can turn a coin into an asteroid and an idea into an apparition.

Out of Dostoevsky: Kafka. Out of Tolstoy: Margaret Mitchell. (in conversation, explaining his dislike for Tolstoy)

It is difficult to argue with the belly, for it has no ears.

Roland grabbed Jake and hauled him to his feet. “You came!” Jake shouted. “You really came!” “I came, yes. By the grace of the gods and the courage of my friends, I came.