For you, it's gossip. For me, it's action.

We like the shadows. That's where all the power is.

Trust is a lot to ask of someone.

Sophronia felt bound to object. "I, for one, should prefer not to shoot at someone I like.""Admirable scruples, Miss Temminnick. Get over them. For you will do it anyway.

We're a team like tea and milk, or cake and custard, or pork and apple.

It is a valuable thing for an intelligencer to be forgotten.

It didn't feel sporting to shoot at a crazy person, even if that person was a vampire who'd agreed to the job.

After every unladylike action, there must be an equal and opposite reaction. Consider the necessary, analyze the consequences, clean up the mess.

Tonight I crash an airship. On purpose.

He might have lost his mind, but never his fashion sense.

Consider the necessary, analyze the consequences, clean up the mess.

My heart was full of softening showers, I used to swing like this for hours, I did not care for war or death, I was glad to draw my breath.

The further you are challenged and threatened, the more your warrior heart will emerge.

For years, despite having impeccable taste, I didn't understand how to convey that I had impeccable taste.

I was surprised when I finally moved to Boston and the East Coast, to discover that there weren't that many vibraphone players around. And I was the only one playing with four mallets.

How often from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial voices to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive each to other's note, Singing their great Creator?

Most of the supposed expressions of our feelings merely relieve us of them by drawing them out of us in an indistinct form that does not teach us to know them.

I wanted to get out of Mississippi in the worst way. Go back? What I want to go back for?

Tell me we're dead and I'll love you even more.

People had taught me what Christians believe, but no one had told me how Christians live.

Ill-luck is, in nine cases out of ten, the result of taking pleasure first and duty second, instead of duty first and pleasure second.