Happiness is a strange, frightening, fragile feeling when you're not used to it.

The ice inside me melts. Suddenly, I'm burning up and terrified, scared I'll be too weak to resist.Scratch that - I'm petrified I've already given in.

I dread this power he has over me. It makes me want to tell him all my secrets and see if he still wants me.

I roll my eyes. "Oh, the woe of being adored."Beta Sinta grins. "It's a hard life.

I want him everywhere. I burn for him in places he hasn't even touched.

Temporary homecomings are bittersweet. Sometimes it's better not to go back at all than to have to leave again.

Griffin leans closer, his voice dropping to a low, suggestive rumble only I can hear. "There are things I could boast about, but I'd rather show than tell.

His tongue swirls against my skin, and I gasp. His voice rough with passion, he rasps, "You're living fire. I burn.

I want you. I need you. For as many hours as possible, I don't want to think about anything but you.

Have I cheated death again? Hades must be allergic to me.

Does it afflict you to find your books wearing out? I mean literally .. . the mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me but that of books most of all.

Fraulein Noether was the most significant creative mathematical genius thus far produced since the higher education of women began.

Well, as my dad would say, it means she’s out of this shithole.

I march in the parade of liberty But as long as I love you I’m not free How long must I suffer such abuse Won’t you let me see you smile one time before I turn you loose?

Pharmaceutical companies have invested hundreds of millions of dollars in new HIV/AIDS treatments not out of altruism but because they can make up those research costs in sales.

The most difficult lie I have ever contended with is this: life is a story about me.

I figure life's a gift and I don't intend on wasting it. You don't know what hand your gonna get dealt next. You learn to take life as it comes at you... to make each day count.

If fighting for the legislatures meant a sacrifice of truth and nonviolence, democracy would not be worth a moment's purchase.

I'm trying to change the root of funk, trying to make it more progressive, more melodic and more lyrically structured.