I’d rather have a cup of coffee and a cigarette than live in all that honesty.

The heart can get really cold if all you've known is winter.

Summertime. It was a song. It was a season. I wondered if that season would ever live inside of me.

I wish I didn’t have a heart that God wrote Sad on.

But the thing is, I didn't make my friends happy and they didn't make me happy. All we did was get stoned out of our minds. That didn't have anything to do with happiness.

I’m not a good kid. Yeah, look, I’m just a piece of paper with the word sad and a bunch of cuss words written on it.A lousy piece of paper. That’s me.A piece of paper that’s waiting to be torn up.

Breakfast seemed to be a good time for throwing your emotions around. Jodie said that at this place emotions were like Frisbees – people just tossed them around all day long like they were at a park.

What is it with you and that book?"Rafael laughed. "We have a personal relationship.

One of my roommates, Rafael, he's an expert on monsters. Not that he talks about them. I can just tell. People who have monsters recognize each other. They know each other without even saying a word.

People who have monsters recognize each other. They know each other without even saying a word.

I tell you Schoonmaker she doesn't know what she has. That's the heart of it. She's like some wild creature who hasn't a clue the worth of its coat.

We have our own language. Christianese... We don't say 'He's out of his mind, ' no, we say 'That's our youth pastor.

Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.

Everyone may be called "comrade, " but some comrades have the power of life and death over other comrades.

A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread.

Giving words [is] an act of lovers.

science is the most revolutionary force in the world.

Yes," Vorkosigan agreed, "I could take over the universe with this army if I could ever get all their weapons pointed in the same direction.

A higher standard of living also brings about a higher standard of culture and civilization.

All the work I've done in my life will be obsolete by the time I'm fifty.