If you, as a parent, raise your children well, they won't need you anymore. If you did it properly, they go away.

I would not wish to marry someone who had already been married. It would be,' she opined, 'like having someone else break in one's own pony.

Jesus. Low-Key Lyesmith," said Shadow. and then he heard what he was saying and he understood. "Loki," he said. "Loki Lie-smith." "You're slow," said Loki, "but you get there in the end." And his lips twisted into a scarred smile and the embers danced in the shadows of his eyes.

The young woman was crying, in the way that grownups cry, keeping it inside as much as they can, and hating it when it still pushes out at the edges, making them ugly and funny-looking on the way.

Be proud of your mistakes. Well, proud may not be exactly the right word, but respect them, treasure them, be kind to them, learn from them. And, more than that, and more important than that, make them. Make mistakes. Make great mistakes, make wonderful mistakes, make glorious mistakes. Better to make a hundred mistakes than to stare at a blank piece of paper too scared to do anything wrong.

I think most things are pretty magical, and that it's less a matter of belief than it is one of just stopping to notice.

Truly, life is wasted on the living, Nobody Owens. For one of us is too foolish to live, and it is not I.