Half-truths only added up to a whole lie.

—the longer you silence a violin, the harder it is for it to find its true voice again.

Free the fire fluttering inside her rib cage. Work her muscles, the bow, the violin, until she played herself to ash and embers and left the rest of the world behind to smolder.

She imagined she could taste the storm in him, the battering winds of desperation and frustration that met her own, blow for blow.

For the longest time, I saw them as the end of my journey, but now I think they were always meant to represent the beginning of yours.

It's our choices that matter in the end. Not wishes, not words, not promises.

He said he'd never remarry, because he'd never find another lady that fit so neatly at his side. He called her his equal in spirit.

What good is honour when greed eats away at its foundations?

Who could be satisfied with seeking out the four corners of one small world, when there was the whole of time to be had?

Lillie woke to darkness an instant before a large warm hand clamped down over her mouth…

Any serious shift towards more sustainable societies has to include gender equality.

If you look at the true essence of the Black Panthers, they were more of a community protection group.

Each man has his fancy.

A good martial artist does not become tense, but ready.

I feel that the same God-force that is the mother and father of the Pope is also the mother and father of the loneliest wino on the planet.

It's much less demanding to think about God's will for your future than it is to ask Him what He wants you to do in the next ten minutes.

I don't know why my brain has kept all the words to the Gilligan's Island theme song and has deleted everything about triangles.

If your job is inspiration you have to go at it at all costs.

I learned how fast you can go from being an international hero to being a reference in a joke on a late night talk show.