How foolish to yearn to ask the very person who'd caused the pain to heal it

The groom always smiles proudly because he's convinced he's accomplished something quite wonderful. The bride smiles because she's been able to convince him of it.

It was a kingdom of dreams — a place where things would be just the way I wanted them to be.

After all, it's not every day a woman is given a kingdom of dreams.

Jennifer Merrick had stored all her tears inside her, and her pride and courage would never permit her to break down and shed them.

But he knew instinctively what he suggested was impossible. She'd been through so much, and held her tears back for so long, that Royce doubted that anything could force her to shed them.

An answering smile drifted across his tanned face. "What is mine, I intend tokeep.

My body is the shape I live in and it shapes the way I live.

The enjoyment of freedom which could be exercised without any motivation would be the real hallmark of a maniac.

A man who makes a one-dollar profit on his expense account is dishonest. A man who loses five cents on one is a damned fool.

The Coastal Plain of Alaska has great potential for energy development. Americans have paid record-high prices for oil and gas in the year 2005.

What I lack in energy, I have in wisdom.

It is almost as easy to be enervated by triumph as by defeat.

Mr. Greer timed all our speeches with an oven timer. Things were nothing at Tribeca Alternative, considered one of Manhattan's finest prep schools, if not high tech.

Maybe I'm old-fashioned, but I think viewers are hungry for shows in which people say something meaningful.

A certain class of novels may with propriety be called fables.

Well, she was talking to me. That's enough to make anyone lose their temper. And I accused her of sleeping with my dad because he was the soundest evolutionary choice.