I bear a deep red stain that runs from my left shoulder down to my right hip, a trail left by the herbwitch's poison that my mother used to try to expel me from her womb.

I have found it is surprisingly difficult to remain sad when a cat is doing its level best to sandpaper one's cheeks.

When one consorts with assassins, one must expect to dance along the edge of a knife once or twice.

Truly, we are the gods' own children, forged in the fire of our tortured pasts, but also blessed with unimaginable gifts.

People hear and see what they expect to hear and see.

Whenever you are ready, or if you never are, my heart is yours, until Death do us part. Whatever that may mean when consorting with one of Death’s handmaidens.

I cannot tell her I have been moping over a broken heart when I have worked so hard to convince her I have no heart at all.

Every time he glances at me I feel it just as surely as if he has reached out and run his finger along my soul. It is all I can do not to smile at the sheer wonder of it.

Are men truly such idiots that they cannot resist two orbs of flesh?

Why be the sheep when you can be the wolf?

He barks out a laugh. "My little rebel.

There is a graceless human tendency to wish upon others the ills visited upon oneself. Instead of pointing successors towards short cuts, you relish seeing them clambering through identical hoops.

Divine sound is the cause of all manifestation. The knower of the mystery of sound knows the mystery of the whole universe.

There might be a deceptive tendency to believe that a life born into a world of plenty should be better, more really a life than one which consists in a struggle against scarcity.

Your true conviction is tested not when everything goes your way but rather when things go wrong...

I base all of my relationships on trust, and I try to prove that trust to begin with, and so there isn't any question.

I get the reason that you should be willing to negotiate sometimes. But you also ought to be willing to throw a punch.

You can never get rid of fear, you can only drop it.

Anytime someone can beat the acting out of someone else, I think its a wonderful thing.

If a comparative-literature major had existed at Harvard College for undergraduates I would have surely gone in that direction.

The more money you take away from families is the less power that family has. And that's a basic power.