Wizards and computers get along about as well as flamethrowers and libraries.

When you do something stupid and die, it's pathetic," I said. "When you do something stupid and survive it, then you get to call it impressive or heroic.

Worry is fear in disguise. And fear will eat you from the inside out if you let it.

For me chivalry isn't dead; it's an involuntary reflex.

If you make some comment even obliquely alluding to menstruation or menopause and its effect on my judgment," Murphy interrupted, "I will break your arm in eleven places.

Tavi looked wildly around the courtyard, and when his gaze flicked toward them, his face lit witha ferocious smile. "Uncle Bernard! Uncle Bernard!" he shouted, pointing at Doroga. "He followed me home! Can we keep him?

People always equate beauty with good, but it just ain't so.