If we don't risk it all, we may as well not write at all.

She had the underwear of a thirteen-year-old, as well, he thought. He glanced back at her. But the shoes of a courtesan.

She froze. He reached up and took her hand in his, pulling the knife away, making her drop it on the floor. "Show me how much you hate me," he whispered against her mouth. "Prove it to me.

I lied. I do that, you know, when it suits me. I would have thought you'd realized that by now.

After all, if spinster chaperons required their own spinster chaperons there simply wouldn't be enough to go around.

If I am ever in the position where I wish to seduce someone I will simply assure her it’s better than rats.

The best thing to do if you start thinking such things (falling in love) is to lie down and wait for it to pass. It always does.

You tell anyone that I cried, and I'll cut your liver out." "Do you even know where a human liver resides?"[...] "Yes," she said, and punched him in it.

She tried to allow herself only one biting remark an hour, and she had already overstepped her allowance.

If you lust after someone and have an absurd and overwhelming need to protect them, then the best way to deal with the situation is to marry the person.

Jesus, woman!" he snapped. "When did we have to become Romeo and Juliet?

These days, I'm finding it harder and harder to breathe. My chest pounds with every heart beat like you're here, again, standing in front of me, your two hands around my neck.

Good deeds are ambassadors from Heaven.

In terms of the way people see me, it breaks down into two very clear and distinct groups: those who think they know me from reading the papers and those who really know me by reading my books.

It takes a lot to motivate me to exercise but Physique 57 is the ideal workout, it's efficient, fun and targeted to get the results you didn't think were possible!

One person of integrity can make a difference.

An emaciated gospel leads to emaciated worship

There needs to be the support and help around you, even when you may have an unhealthy home environment.

Please do not assume that you can change governments. Young people don’t understand this.

I once tried to make lace - which has been a great obsession of women - unsexy. And I achieved it.

Often the wicked prosper, while the righteous starve; yet I would never exchange my state for theirs, my virtue for their gold. For mine endures, while riches change their owner every day.