All that time I thought she was my future, I was wrong. She wasn't my future at all. She was the door to my future. But I'm through that door now, and ready to close it behind me.

The tail of Emily Windsnap"everyone has a secret . mines alittle different. i figured out i am a mermaid.

You can't make people stop loving each other just because a law says it's wrong.

It's all very well going round with two fingers stuck up at the world, but what happens when the world turns round and sticks them back up at you?The world's a lot bigger than I am.

Love doesn't discriminate and nor should the law. Not in this country, not in this world, not in this lifetime.

On the way out, I hug Mum, holding her close. 'Thank you, ' I whisper. 'For dinner - and for everything.'Mum smiles and strokes my cheek. 'There's nothing to thank me for.

The queers could almost pass for the same species as the straights.

For a second, I see into the future: she's old and grey, she has senile dementia and can't remember my name. The thought pretty much breaks my heart in two.

Be eager to explore new discoveries

Rejoice while you can breathe.

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.

To solve an interesting problem, start by finding a problem that is interesting to you.

If I knew words enough, I could write the longest love letter in the world and never get tired

Life's battle is a conquest for the strong; The meaning shows in the defeated thing.

We should be cultivating our female workers. The truth of the matter is that women just see problems and solutions differently, and that's valuable.

I get joy, and actually, a high... by putting a quarter in a meter.

When you increase the number of gardens, you increase the number of heavens too!

The study of consciousness that can extend beyond the body is extremely important for the issue of survival, since it is this part of human personality that would be likely to survive death.