I want someone who is fierce and will love me until death and knows that love is as strong as death, and be on my side forever and ever. I want someone who will destroy and be destroyed by me.

In the library I felt better, words you could trust and look at till you understood them, they couldn't change half way through a sentence like people, so it was easier to spot a lie.

By betrayal, I mean promising to be on your side, then being on somebody else's.

There is a certain seductiveness about dead things. You can ill treat, alter and recolour what's dead. It won’t complain.

Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differently.

They believed that if a mouse found your hair clippings and built a nest with them you got a headache. If the nest was big enough, you might go mad.

History is a hammock for swinging and a game for playing.

The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home, like all the men who now live with mermaids at the bottom of the sea.Or the people who found Atlantis.

Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differently

There's no choice that doesn't mean a loss.

If there was an elephant in the supermarket, she'd either not see it at all, or call it Mrs Jones and talk about fishcakes.

Dream large and make yaour dreams defy the laws of gravity. Soar high and show your inner strength

Meeting her was luck.Knowing her was maddening.Loving her is destiny.

Understand that everybody has their own struggles, regardless of whether you can see it or not. Just surround yourself with the people who love you, and know you're not really alone.

A coquette is like a recruiting sergeant, always on the lookout for fresh victims.

The temptations of prosperity insinuate themselves after a gentle, but very powerful manner; so that we are but little aware of them and less able to withstand them.

I'm not the kind of guy who dabbles in a lot of things.

Wherever the standard of freedom and independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will be America's heart, her benedictions and her prayers.

In the years just after 9/11, even being breathed on by a suspected terrorist could land you in extralegal detention for the rest of your life.

you have to love something before you can hate it.