In the basement, with Ruth, I began to learn that anger, hate, fear and loneliness are all one button awaiting the touch of just a single finger to set them blazing toward destruction.

So here my check. Overdue and overdrawn. Cash it in hell.

Negative desires can cause no evil if you do not allow yourself to be seduced by them.

The first key to leadership is self-control.

Poetry is a storm asking peace to dance with her.

Of course, I didn't kill them. They're just taking a little ... siesta, that's all.

Truth is, I wouldn't know a gigabyte from a snakebite.

Will without power is like children playing at soldiers.

I still buy CDs and DVDs, but generally for more obscure material.

Gansey had no idea how old Blue was. He knew she'd just finished eleventh grade. Maybe she was sixteen. Maybe she was eighteen. Maybe she was twenty-two and just very short and remedial.

There is nothing which wings its flight so swiftly as calumny, nothing is uttered with more ease; nothing is listened to with more readiness, nothing disbursed more widely.

There is never much trouble in any family where the children hope someday to resemble their parents.