Every marriage has two hearts, one light and one dark

Quiet people have the loudest minds.

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

The water was glassy and calm, still candy-colored in the afterglow of sunset.

A life without love is like a tree without fruit.

The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

Outside, daylight was bleeding slowly toward dusk.

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad.

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there... and still on your feet.

We are what ballads are written of, what bards sing of. We are epic, you and I.

Adele and Vladimir danced along the banks of the River Seine, the loveliness of spring a backdrop all around them.

Quiet this metal! Let the manes put off their terror, let them put off their aqueous bodies with fire. Let them assume the milk-white bodies of agate. Let them draw together the bones of the metal.

When you have children it wakes up the child in you.

And if you sing though as angels, and love not the singing, you muffle man's ears to the voices of the day and the voices of the night.

I don't really like the whole pancake look.

This is our fault. My fault as much as the next man's, because even if I was against the war, I didn't do enough to stop it.

A militia, when properly formed, are in fact the people themselves... and include all men capable of bearing arms.

What doctor does not need platform heels and dark black eyeliner to treat their patients?

If you owe money, you can't pay them out. You just pay for everything, you do smart things, you eventually get very rich.