I wanted a life of adventure. I wanted to travel. I wanted to work my way up to being Somebody. I wanted to leave a mark on the Earth and be remembered.

She had thought he was dead, or at least not totally alive, and you could not still be dating someone you believe had an autopsy, so it was not really cheating.

You kill by consent, every time you let something… pervert the balance when you have the power to stop it.

They may have been rightly overbearing in her formative years, but they also loved Roselyn enough to trust she needed dreams more than realities.

She did not arrive at Annandale without taking the chisel to herself more than once, without rubbing up against a few boys to smooth an edge or two.

Now that this destiny was about to happen, every instinct within him fought against it, realizing he had been fetishizing suicide.

Her rebirth stood in her mind with the clarity of a perfect diamond, the light scattering the rainbows through her body.

She had seen this relationship dying before it ever lived, but allowed optimism and lust to blind her.

You and me? We are never going to be just friends. The only time I'm not adoring you is when I am too busy hating you and wishing to God I never met you...

She kissed him… long enough he could almost hear her thoughts. Long enough that he began to know her story, know what she had been through.

To her, it was like asking a butterfly what it remembered about being a caterpillar. She could fly now and nothing could touch her when she left the cocoon of her body behind at night.

There isa time to liveand a time to diebut never to reject the moment.

Faith is rare because fear is rampant. For faith will demand that I step into places that fear itself fears to go.

Vigorous writing is concise.

Anyone can be a fool, but the one recognizes it and admits it is on the path to wisdom.

So I built my entire career in the United States and that's why it feels like I'm an American actor.

It is odd there are many movies with many men. But generally movies have one woman, or maybe the older woman and the younger girl.

I happen to have worked with male directors who don't understand women at all. Not at all. I'm flabbergasted by their ignorance.

I wonder if it is harder for a woman who was beautiful to get older or a woman who was never looked at.

The end is near," Moridin said. "The Wheel has groaned its final rotation, the clock has lost its spring, the serpent heaves its final gasps.

Adoption gives us the privilege of sons, regeneration the nature of sons.