Each of them always gravitating toward the other. Yet still they do not touch.

This is not magic. This is the way the world is, only very few people take the time to stop and note it.

I am tired of trying to hold things together that cannot be held.

I have absurdly vivid dreams.

The finest of pleasures are always the unexpected ones.

Most maidens are perfectly capable of rescuing themselves in my experience, at least the ones worth something, in any case.

People see what they wish to see. And in most cases, what they are told that they see.

Only the ship is made of books, its sails thousands of overlapping pages, and the sea it floats upon is dark black ink.

Tarot is just stories on cards.

Even the air feels different on Halloween, autumn-crisp and bright.

Love is fickle and fleeting," Tsukiko continues. "It is rarely a solid foundation for decisions to be made upon, in any game.

Even when a girl is married she still never completely leaves her mother and father's home.

It would take a helluva man to replace no man at all.

Confidence comes from relentless pursuit of perfection.

It's one of my inventions-a shampoo, " Athena explained. "Anyway, I didn't know it would do"-she gestured toward the snakes-"that.

I am just so happy and thrilled and I am so glad Mr. Hefner chose me.

Chess-players are so unsociable, they are no company for any but themselves.

I am no busier than I have ever been - I have always been a busy guy.

The Europeans and Americans residing in the town of Zanzibar are either Government officials, independent merchants, or agents for a few great mercantile houses in Europe and America.

So if we use birth control we don't need to be married?

I'm only me when I'm with you.