Bones, what is everyone doing in here? Spade, cover up. Frigging vampires think everyone wants to see what they've got." ~Cat

I love the Underworld movies because the vampires arent automatically evil, yet neither are they basically humans with fangs.

Remember: success does not lead to happiness - it's the other way around. Greater happiness is what leads to greater success.

I'm such a fangirl when it comes to other writers. I read 250 books a year, and I'm always talking up books by other authors.

From my dad ... I think we have a similar sense of humor. I don't know if that's a good or bad thing, but I think he's funny!

One of the best feelings I had growing up was being completely exhausted at the end of the day after playing outside all day.

It is our response to our circumstances rather than the degree of difficulty that determines whether or not we are discontent

Yeah, but I forgot to take my George Orwell-shaped multivitamins along with my breakfast bowl of Big Brother Os this morning.

Body or mind, heart or soul, we're all human, and we're supposed to feel pain. You cut yourself off from it at your own risk.

You predicted quick victory. Now it’s going to get hopelessly complicated. Jesus, don’t you know any better than that by now?

I grew up in an agricultural family, and I never distanced myself from where the food comes from. I think it's quite natural.

Be a student, not a follower. Take interest in what someone says, then debate it, ponder it, and consider it from all angles.

Always be willing to look at both sides of the argument. Understanding the other side is the best way to strengthen your own.

One way to learn to do something right is to do something wrong. Failure must teach us, or surely success will not reward us.

Riches do not come by crossing your fingers and walking through the day hoping. Riches and wealth comes from well-laid plans.

Humans have the remarkable ability to get exactly what they must have. But there is a difference between a 'must' and 'want'.

Strength is one of those things you're supposed to have. You don't feel that you have it at the time you're going through it.

I recognize a lot of the things I'm going through. Like, I lose my temper a lot and I become unhinged and kind of hysterical.

Everything, if you could only see it clearly enough, like this, is beautiful and complete. Everything has its own perfection.

Some things can be both real and imaginary at the same time, . . . some lies can be true, . . . broken faith may be restored.

Beliefs are the roads we take to our dreams. Believe you can do something-or believe you can't-and you'll be right everytime.

Why are you doing this to yourself? When something bad happens, why do you have to pick at it until it bleeds all over again?

But then again, maybe bad things happen because it’s the only way we can keep remembering what good is supposed to look like.

I always write like the devil's behind me with a whip. I'm going to write because I like it. Then I'm going to write another.

Turns out that loving yourself is the greatest way to improve yourself, and as you improve yourself, your improve your world.

I would love you all the day, every night we would kiss and play, if with me you'd fondly stray, over the hills and far away.

Every moment allows your the opportunity to take a deep breath in and be grateful for the fact that you can take in a breath.

Bill Gates has become the patron saint of philanthropy and the poster child of rebirth, and from what I can tell, rightly so.

There are two kinds of fools. One says, "This is old, and therefore good." And one says, " This is new, and therefore better.

A leader is one who sees more than others see, who sees farther than others see, and who sees before others do." (Leroy Eims)

To lead yourself, use your head; to lead others, use your heart. Always touch a person's heart before you ask him for a hand.

Great leaders understand that the right attitude will set the right atmosphere, which enables the right response from others.

We overestimate the event and underestimate the process. Every fulfilled dream occurred because of dedication to the process.

If you can raise up leaders, you will always have followers, but if you can't raise up leaders, you will only have followers.

The key choices you make-apart from the natural talent you already have-will set you apart from others who have talent alone.

Where your life ends, your being doesn’t. Where your being ends, you don’t. That is what is able to have and move your forms.

You spoil your horse, Halt said. Will glanced at him. You spoil yours. Halt considered the thought, then nodded. That's true.

The noise that we can expect in the future will only increase and we'll be wishing for rural Portugal or something like that.

If you see our best seller list, most of them are books that are given as gifts. They are books you give to flatter somebody.

I’ve stopped thinking about it. I don’t have time to have a girlfriend. I have like a full-time job Learning How to Be Blind.

This is what I love about novels - both reading them and writing them. They jump into the abyss to be with you where you are.

For a moment, she was quiet. Then she grabbed my hand, whispered, “Run run run run run,” and took off, pulling me behind her.

I've lived here for eighteen years and I have never once in my life come across anyone who cares about anything that matters.

While I did not fancy myself a particularly good person, I never thought my first real sexual action would be prostitutional.

The ploughman knows how many acres he shall upturn from dawn to sunset: but the thinker knows not what a day may bring forth.

The Secret Intelligence Service I knew occupied dusky suites of little rooms opposite St James's Park Tube station in London.

I worked for MI6 in the Sixties, during the great witch-hunts, when the shared paranoia of the Cold War gripped the services.

The battle we have fought, and are still fighting, for the forests is a part of the eternal conflict between right and wrong.

It may be a very bad thing that I needed God to die for me, but it is a wonderful thing that God thinks I am worth dying for.

One of the great uses of Twitter and Facebook will be to prove at the Last Day that prayerlessness was not from lack of time.

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