As I keep saying, fiction is truth. I think fiction is the truest thing there ever was.

That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.

Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.

There's really no such thing as the 'voiceless'. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.

Wars are never fought for altruistic reasons. They're usually fought for hegemony, for business. And then of course there's the business of war.

He folded his fear into a perfect rose. He held it out in the palm of his hand. She took it from him and put it in her hair.

Ammu said that human beings were creatures of habit, and it was amazing the kind of things one could get used to.

...a political struggle that does not have women at the heart of it, above it, below it, and within it is no struggle at all.

She viewed ethnic cleansing, famine and genocide as direct threats to her furniture.

Empathy may be the single most important quality that must be nurtured to give peace a fighting chance.

NGOs are dangerous. They do what the missionaries used to do in Colonial times. They are Trojan Horses. The worse the situation, the more the NGOs.

You don’t have to bewitch me, Aiden. I like you already.

To excel the past we must not allow ourselves to lose contact with it on the contrary we must feel it under our feet because we raised ourselves upon it.

and the whole forest would give itself up to jollification for weeks on end.

Women are impossible, witches are worse, and women who are powerful witches are going to be the death of me.

Troubles, even the dullest, are always mildly interesting at the first hearing.

It is certain that every class is interested in [educational] establishments which give to the human mind its highest improvements, and to every Country its truest and most durable celebrity.

Do you like to eat things? -I love eating. I list it as a hobby.

Love which is only an episode in the life of men, is the entire history of the life of women.

God walked down the stairs of heaven with a Baby in His arms.

We truly could have used the later Jobs in earlier years at Apple, is what I feel.