He smelled the salt on his own lips and the orange blossoms in her hair. Real ones, he could see now, tucked into the curls with cheap, native combs. The sight of them gave him hope.

I've crossed a world of sand and tears in search of you.

Kas was right: a woman could destroy a man. This one could do so, simply by knowing his name. She could do so, simply with her eyes.

Looking back at him was a man who was battered and broken.And alive, for the first time in his life.

He wanted to die. He prayed for it. Through the roar in his ears, he begged for it.

Caine was a murderer. A liar. A cad. A skulker in shadows and a heartless wretch. What sort of woman or God would love someone like him?

He heard the voice that had called to him in dreams, had saved him from the sands and from following his brother into the river.

Kent had begun sleeping with his good eye open, for he knew the mark of sedition when he saw it. Even partway blinded, who could see it better?

Just because you can't read doesn't make you dumb. It just means you haven't learned yet.

IGNORANCE is without gaining Knowledge & Knowledge is gained without IGNORANCE

Women have helped shape our world, yet still do not receive the recognition and compensation they deserve.

Radar, of course, is what cellphone radiation is exactly like. It can be a similar frequency, it's just much weaker power.

Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is profound but because it is wrong.

Anyone who's ever had the misfortune of seeing me interact with house pets knows I have a wickedly strong paternal instinct bordering on the maternal.

When we do what we have to do we are compliant. When we do what we choose to do we are committed.

What I try to do is to go into a poem - and one writes them, of course, poem by poem - to go into each poem, first of all without having any sense whatsoever of where it's going to end up

To affirm is to make firm.

Procrastination is the beginning of poor performance.