He sat up, going still. “Am I wearing a wife-beater, Lizvetta?” He gaped down. “Oh, come on!”Lothaire

When she absently worried her bottom lip with one of her adorable little fangs, he s

Too bad, Elizabeth. You're Stuck with me.Not for a few decades, not for centuries. You're tied to me forever. That boy and girl offspring you talked off? They'll come from me--or no one.

Lothaire is very much alive.”“You swear?”“Often. Though not as much as foul-mouthed Regin. I try not to in front of Bertil.” She petted the bat.“I meant—will Lothaire live?”“He will.

Tell me, Lothaire, I want to know. Convince me why I should love you.”“Because any other female would!

Why am I letting you comfort me?” He stared over her head. Because I’ve made sure you have no one else to turn to.

In other words, he was the tree in the forest that silently fell--when no one was around to be crushed.

I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.

To feel successful, you must be able to be honest about the things that are really important to you.

Moose are the squirrels of Alaska.

We don't know what we can achieve because no instruction manual accompanies our birth

Whether the bear beats the wolf or the wolf beats the bear, the rabbit always loses.

Did you forget? I'm a heartless wretch!

The ocean has always been a salve to my soul.

People think the camera steals their soul. Places, I am convinced, are affected in the opposite direction. The more they are photographed (or drawn and painted) the more soul they seem to accumulate.

Sometimes you watch one of your favorite shows from 20 years ago and you think, 'I'm loving this, but golly, it's going at the speed of a snail.'

Entertainment came out of this thing called a television, and it was gray. Most of the films that we saw at the cinema were black and white. It was a gray world. And music somehow was in color.