You either mellow at 30, or your head explodes - take your choice.

It would be nice if you’d stop almost killing me because you don’t want to screw other peo­ple.

No name-calling truly bites deep unless, in some dark part of us, we believe it. If we are confident enough then it is just noise.

Children make that big a difference to you? He asked. I nodded. Yeah, they do. I never figured you as the maternal type. I'm not, but kids are people, Edward, little people trapped by the choices the adults around them make.

Anyone who doesn't believe that the forest is a deadly place has never been lost in one.

Sometimes you deal with the devil not because you want to, but because if you don't, someone else will.

Marry Gentry Swallowing Darkness (Laurell K. Hamilton):Pick any fairy tale that’s based on older stories, and the heroine of the piece has a miserable, dangerous, nightmarish time of it.