Falling in love was like falling off a cliff. It felt pretty much like flying until you hit the ground.

You look like a boy who has eaten the fruit of the tree of knowledge and doesn't like the taste.

If you want to be a writer, you must be in love with the process of writing, whether you achieve financial success or not.

She had never felt more alive than when she lay dying in Han Alister's arms.

His aster-blue eyes shown out from a face blackened by bruises and soot, his fair hair glittering in the firelight. Dressed all in black, silhouetted against flame, he looked rather like a demon, raised from the dead, trading for souls on the other side.

Don't expect much and you won't be disappointed.

Jason settled back on the bench. 'I hate to break this to you, but as a rule, wizards are nasty people. They're powerful, capricious, ruthless, egotistical, used to getting their own way. That's being kind.