Confidence is a fine trait. Over-confidence isn't.

Do you really have the ability to control all types of undead?" Magnus asked. "Can you really make a hundred shoes in a single night?" I asked. Magnus smiled. "Wrong kind of fairie.

I am a very linear thinker, so I write beginning to end. I write hundreds of pages per book that never make it into print

There's Only so much emotional super glue in a person's soul, that everything just stays broken.

They say not to look back, but if you’re not sure what lies ahead, what else is there but looking back?

When I was younger, I'd wanted someone to promise me that things would work out and nothing bad would ever happen again. But I understood now that that was a child's wish. No one could promise that. No one. The grown-ups could try, but they couldn't promise, not and mean it.

I so wanted out of this conversation, but it was like a car accident: Once you started spinning, you could only wait and see what you hit.