A vampire, like a lady, never reveals his true age.

Steampunk is...the love child of Hot Topic and a BBC costume drama

It's no good choosing your first husband from a school for evil geniuses. Much too difficult to kill.

No one ever explained the octopuses.

I am rather fond of ladybugs. They are so delightfully hemispherical.

I suspect it may be like the difference between a drinker and an alcoholic; the one merely reads books, the other needs books to make it through the day.

How ghastly for her, people actually thinking, with their brains, and right next door. Oh, the travesty of it all.

The ill-informed masses included her own family among their ranks, a family that specialized in being both inconvenient and asinine.

Alexia figured, delightedly, that this meant he did, in fact, tend to traipse around his private apartments in the altogether. Marriage was becoming more and more of an attractive prospect.

Conall,” “Aye, Alexia?” He looked up at her. Was that fear in his caramel eyes? “I am going to take advantage of you,” she said

She took a moment to lament her lack of parasol. Every time she left the house, she felt keenly the absence of her heretofore ubiquitous accessory.

Reading is of course dry work, and further refreshment was called for and consumed.

You are the song of my mind, melody of my soul, dance of my spirit, and the indescribable ecstasy of my life.

Spiritual is criterion, where free will exists in plenty.

He fights with spirit as well as with the sword.

I rush to add that I find the Web infinitely useful for rustling up information, settling arguments or locating the legends of rock stars.

Free time keeps me going.

It is better to fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than to succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.

Christmas is a holiday that we celebrate not as individuals nor as a nation, but as a human family.

You are a woman: you must never speak what you think; your words must contradict your thoughts, but your actions may contradict your words.

My voice sounded like one of the guinea fowl that screeched in our trees as it pooped, but I never let that stop me.