When facing unbeatable odds, just think of yourself as unbeatably odd. (The Hero's Guide to Being a Hero)

Mere words cannot defeat a true hero. Unless they happen to be the words to some sort of Instant Death Spell. Magic is scary.

I'm pretty much a goddess around here.

The people need a hero. But all they've got is . . . me.

Men like fun much more than they like clever

It turns out that home is not mostly a place. Home is someone putting her arms around you and saying the words your heart longs to hear: always and everywhere.

If it was appropriate to judge a person based on her footwear - and it obviously was - I decided I liked her immediately.

A woman who is starved for her real soul-life may look 'cleaned up and combed' on the outside, but on the inside she is filled with dozens of pleading hands and empty mouths.

If you're not a beautiful person, you can't do anything about it.

Man is the only animal that deals in that atorcity of atrocities, War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and goes forth in cold blood and calm pulse to exterminate his kind.

I would wear a full-length cape if I could get away with it - I do love a good swirl in a fog.

I'm always looking for a new thing that really terrifies me that I think I can't do it and accomplish that.

I'm still single, but me and Lauren are really really really close friends.

Some of us are afraid of dying; others of human loneliness. Profane was afraid of land or seascapes like this, where nothing else lived but himself.