Friends don't count the cost of favors.

Death, jewelry, or magic; it sounded like Valentine's Day.

No such thing as a hard woman, Memphis,just soft men. With that, I turned, and the others followed me.

I'm more influenced by my own interests than anyone else's. Writers have to entertain themselves, or they can't entertain anyone else

Oh, ma petite, you are growing gargantuan." I looked at him and it was not a friendly look. "Never tease a woman about her weight, Jean-Claude. At least not an American twentieth-century one." He Spread his hands wide. "My deepest apologies." "When you apologize, try not to smile at the same time. It ruins the effect.

I looked up at Ellen and her not-glowing pentagram. "Harm none is the rule, Ellen: bad witch, no cookie.

Very few people see their own actions as truly evil,... It is left to their victims to decide what is evil and what is not.