I've lost track of the number of people who want to be writers but never actually write anything. Talking about writing, dreaming about writing, can be very fun, but it won't get a book written. You've got to write

Just what I needed—a necromancer with an attitude. Oh, wait, I was a necromancer with an attitude.

Sometimes it's not the optimist you need, but another pessimist to walk beside you.

Sometimes the greatest wounds are the ones we try the hardest not to inflict.

There are only two things you can do when you're dressed like Barbie Does Bondage; you can be embarrassed or you can be aggressive. Guess what my choice was.

I will go to my grave seeing the look on your face at the last. Keep it up and you'll go sooner than later.

I smiled at him, as Doyle squeezed my hand and I squeezed back. "Some people are addicted to falling in love, Doctor. Some people love that rush of new emotions, and when that first rush of new love is spent, they move on to the next, thinking the love wasn't real. What I felt in her, and potentially in you, is the love of years. Love that knows that that first rush of freshness isn't the real thing. It's the tip of the iceberg.