Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.

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.

Tessa never could look at him without a tightening in her chest, a painful stutter of her heart.

For forms of faith let graceless zealots fight; his can't be wrong whose life is in the right.

The Universe is a dream dreamed by a single dreamer where all the dream characters dream too.

There is always something missing that torments me.

Had I been crested, not cloven, my Lords, you had not treated me thus.

The law of England is the greatest grievance of the nation, very expensive and dilatory.

Our current identification system is so disjointed that the World Trade Center terrorists had a total of 63 valid driver's licenses between them.

I have come from outside Delhi, but I give you an assurance that the people in the Government are very capable. I want to awaken and unite that power for the welfare of nation.

There's a good sense of fun and lack of sarcasm in the Texans, maybe a little earnestness which is kind of why I found it quite Australian.

I was the first person to come into New York with a Latin American point of view which was also very much influenced by political happenings in Latin America.