One very gratifying compliment I sometimes hear is that women want to be my best friend. This endlessly amuses my actual best friend, Jocelyn, because in her estimation I'm 'a good friend, but not...

If you believe in yourself and work hard, your dreams will come true.Well...I guess the people who work hard whose dreams come true don't get to write books about it, so we never really find out what...

Soulmates is what you aim for, but soup snakes is what you get sometimes.

If you're Natalie Dormer, you can take big fashion risks and shave half your head, and it looks good. If you're a normal person and you try that, you just look like you had recent brain surgery.

Haley and I would talk for hours about which member of 'N Sync we'd want to marry. After long deliberation, the answer was always J. C. Chasez. JoeyFatone's last name was going to be "Fat One" no...

Mrs. Cole was a perfect democrat. She hated all kids equally.

People think first love is sweet, and never sweeter than when that first bond snaps. You've heard a thousand pop and country songs that prove the point; some fool got his heart broke. Yet that first...

All of which does not alter the fact that Pnin was on the wrong train.

And a beautiful garden, not far from a beautiful lake, and I said it sounded perfectly perfect.

A certain man once lost a diamond cuff-link in the wide blue sea, and twenty years later, on the exact day, a Friday apparently, he was eating a large fish - but there was no diamond inside. That's...

Butt he isn't my lover, or my fiancé, or my boyfriend or anything, and I refuse to be killed with him.

Four of us,' said Morwen. The cats yowled. 'Yes, I know, and of course you're coming, but you can't carry a bucket of soapy water, so for the purposes of this discussion it doesn't matter,' she told...

Buckets,' said Cimorene. 'Lots of buckets, and soap, and lemon juice. Where do you keep your buckets, Mendanbar?' 'Around somewhere,' Mendanbar said vaguely.

May you and your triple cursed wash water turn purple with orange spots and fall down a bottomless pit!

Out here, it's better safe than sorry, because generally speaking, too much of the time sorry means you're dead.

The young man is currently standing in the hallway, dripping on the handmade silk rug that the Emperor of the Indies presented to His Majesty's grandmother. He is insisting on speaking with His...

Odd as this might sound, I suppose I'm glad you're here, Jacob.''You mean, 'as much as I'd love to kill you, I'm glad she's warm,' right?

Say what you want, I still think Dracula One and Dracula Two are creep-tacular.

No one dressed by me ever looks like an idiot.

How could you fall in love with a three inch worm?

I feel like getting married, or committing suicide, or subscribing to L'Illustration. Something desperate, you know.

The baloney weighed the raven down, and the shopkeeper almost caught him as he whisked out the delicatessen door.

The tune was wailing and mournful, almost flagrantly so, and the total effect was of a heartbroken piccolo being parted forever from its bagpipe lover.

The magician stood erect, menacing the attackers with demons, metamorphoses, paralyzing ailments, and secret judo holds. Molly picked up a rock.

I am no king, and I am no lord,And I am no soldier at-arms, said he.I'm none but a harper, and a very poor harper,That am come hither to wed with ye.If you were a lord, you should be my lord,And the...

{Sam} Rafe grinned.

Right." A soft, choked laugh. "Kind of ruins the dramatic effect if I'm storming off in the wrong direction, doesn't it?

I walked over to the paper and bent as the pencil began scribbling across it. A stupid question. Liz was the only poltergeist I knew. But if she was here, that meant. My heart started thudding again....

Lucas - You'll have to excuse Paige's overenthusiastic attempt to befriend the local wildlife. Not many of their type where she comes from.Paige -Hey, we have gangs in Boston.Lucas - Ah, yes. I...

I asked. SImon said. Derek said. Simon glanced at me. Derek rolled his eyes.