All friendships are negotiations of power.

Mutually assured destruction.

Clever as the Devil and twice as pretty.

Every hero is the villain of his own story.

Ah coffee. The sweet balm by which we shall accomplish today's tasks.

You're like this leopard who's pretending to be a house cat.

Those who really love you don't mean to hurt you and if they do, you can't see it in their eyes but it hurts them too.

Jewels, lies, slips of paper, dried flowers, memories of thing long past, useless quotations, idle hands, beads, buttons, and mischief.

Put your puppet on the throne." said Talathain. "You may make her Queen but she won’t be Queen for long.

There’s nothing like a gunshot to make you the life of the party.

If curiosity killed the cat, it was satisfaction that brought it back.

Seeing her cry still made me feel the same way it did earlier.

The dirty laundry of our confessed sin belongs in the Lord’s laundry hamper

I'm blessed with a pretty good voice. So just sitting back there banging on the tubs wasn't enough.

I am waiting for you, for an interval, somewhere very near, just around the corner. All is well.

I need an office, so I can have a place where I don't write.

I took everything really seriously and was overly sensitive about things, and I think that's rooted in perfectionism.

Thirty spokes are joined in the wheel's hub. The hole in the middle makes it useful.

Be generous, and pleasant-tempered, and forgiving; even as God scatter favors over thee, do thou scatter over the people.

When you vote, vote for those who are not warmongers, and vote for those who respect human rights. When you see a president who doesn't respect human rights, don't vote for that person.

Any object not interesting in itself may become interesting through becoming associated with an object in which an interest already exists.