“Magic, if that was the right word, often rises and falls on your own belief in your abilities. I've seen very powerful people completely crippled by self-doubt.”

“Self-doubt is a self-fulfilling prophecy.”

“Knock your bad self out.”

“some choices you make with your heart some with your head but when in doubt choose head over heart.... it will keep you alive. -merry gentry”

“I hoped he was right, but one thing I've learned about vampires-they keep pulling new rabbits out of their cloaks. Big, fanged, carnivorous bunnies that'll eat your eyeballs if you're not paying attention.”

“Very few people see their own actions as truly evil,... It is left to their victims to decide what is evil and what is not.”

“One of the many reasons that Padma will always be a secondary power on the Council is his belief that all power must be taken, that all power must come through fear. True power comes when others offer it to you and you merely accept it as a gift, not as the spoils of some personal war.”