As you enter, you pray to leave. As you leave, you pray to never return.

Remember when we told each other no distractions?Yes. He runs a blazing finger over my earrings, touching each one in turn.Distract me.

In what life can I trust anything out of your mouth ever again?

Cameron, my heart is quite literally in this,

Only his eyes remain the same. Bronze, red-gold, like iron brought to blazing heat.

Cal stares ahead, as if his eyes alone can set the entire world on fire. I think he wants to. That would make this easier.

I know!" he growls back, his voice guttural. I wonder if all of his fire kind have eyes like his. Eyes that burn and smolder.

Weakness is acceptable, forgivable, around family. But not when lives and wars hang in the balance.

Take control. You are a strong, independent woman.

The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.

The edge in modern painting is charged with neurosis; it meets a world that no longer confirms it but which is hostile or at best indifferent.

I really pay attention to the bass in the music I listen to, and that's what I tend to write toward.

Felicity grimaced in agreement. “No, you are perfectly correct. I did not realize how vital the approbation of one’s butler is in allowing for nocturnal autonomy.

I think God loves to speak to us prophetically, because there are a number of things which happen when you receive a prophecy.

The great poem must have the stamp of greatness as well as its essence.

You're responsible for yourself as an actress, you know that your personal growth goes through that alchemy, and you give as much importance to your life as you do to your acting.

I don't have any children, but if I had a baby, I would have to name it, so I would get a baby-naming book. Or I would invite somebody over who had a cast on.

Summer is the annual permission slip to be lazy. To do nothing and have it count for something. To lie in the grass and count the stars. To sit on a branch and study the clouds.