What would you do if you weren't afraid?
Done is better than perfect.
One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.
We cannot change what we are not aware of, and once we are aware, we cannot help but change.
Therefore I would ask you to write all kinds of books, hesitating at no subject however trivial or however vast. By hook or by crook, I hope that you will possess yourselves of money enough to travel and to idle, to contemplate the future or the past of the world, to dream over books and loiter at street corners and let the line of thought dip deep into the stream.
You must understand: they fear you. There is nothing scarier in their minds than a girl who knows the power of her flames.
Fortune does favor the bold and you'll never know what you're capable of if you don't try.
There is no greater insight into the future than recognizing...when we save our children, we save ourselves
A woman can't do anything about her appearance. Either she's pretty or she isn't. But her character is quite another matter.
I like men who have a future and women who have a past.
She's the sort of woman who lives for others - you can tell the others by their hunted expression.
A study in the Washington Post says that women have better verbal skills than men. I just want to say to the authors of that study: 'Duh.
You're only a man! You've not our gifts! I can tell you! Why, a woman can think of a hundred different things at once, all them contradictory!
A well-read woman is a dangerous creature.
Margaret Atwood, the Canadian novelist, once asked a group of women at a university why they felt threatened by men. The women said they were afraid of being beaten, raped, or killed by men. She then asked a group of men why they felt threatened by women. They said they were afraid women would laugh at them.
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
Yes Yes when God created love he didn't help most when God created dogs He didn't help dogs when God created plants that was average when God created hate we had a standard utility when God created me He created me when God created the monkey He was asleep when He created the giraffe He was drunk when He created narcotics He was high and when He created suicide He was low when He created you lying in bed He knew what He was doing He was drunk and He was high and He created the mountains and the sea and fire at the same time He made some mistakes but when He created you lying in bed He came all over His Blessed Universe.
I'd made the vampire cry. Great. I felt like a real superhero. Harry Dresden, breaker of monsters' hearts.
The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.
Put some clothes on, you weird, yellow-eyed, table-dancing, werewolf-training, cryptic, stare-me-right-in-the-eyes-and-don't-even-blink wench.