Knight takes Knight,” I called into the cloudy night air. “Check.

Fear is bred from ignorance. So knowledge is a weapon against it, and reason is the tool of knowledge.

An inferior sense of smell," Marcus said, as if absolutely nothing of significance had happened, "is distinct from being told that one smells unpleasant.

There's more magic in a baby's first giggle than in any firestorm a wizard can conjure up, and don't let anyone tell you any different.

I guess maybe you don’t get to be the Merlin of the White Council by saving up frequent-flier miles

On the whole, we're a murderous race. According to Genesis, it took as few as four people to make the planet too crowded to stand, and the first murder was a fratricide. Genesis says that in a fit of jealous rage, the very first child born to mortal parents, Cain, snapped and popped the first metaphorical cap in another human being. The attack was a bloody, brutal, violent, reprehensible killing. Cain's brother Abel probably never saw it coming. As I opened the door to my apartment, I was filled with a sense of empathic sympathy and intuitive understanding. For freaking Cain.

‎It isn't enough to stand up and fight darkness. You've got to stand apart from it, too. You've got to be different from it.