Indeed, she often wondered if she were dead, or dying from the inside out, and that was the root of her calm, the reason she could surrender her character.

Remember to breathe. It is after all, the secret of life.

Waking up was a daily cruelty, an affront, and she avoided it by not sleeping.

Just my luck, if I believed in luck. I only believe in the opposite of luck, whatever that is.

Perhaps family itself, like beauty, is temporary, and no discredit need attach to impermanence.

The momentum of the mind can be vexingly, involuntarily capricious.

Are you an aberration to your species?' she cried. 'Cats don't look for approval!

And what new life can emerge from a book. Any book, maybe.

The future reshapes the memory of the past in the way it recalibrates significance: some episodes are advanced, others lose purchase.

We live in our tales of ourselves, she thought, and ignore as best we can the contradictions, and the lapses, and the abrasions of plot against our mortal souls...

When you can't die, she thought, everything sounds like a clock ticking.

How do you imagine Hell, sir Blacksad ? For me, it's a place without music... of complete silence.

Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut, that held its ground.

It's very weird to succeed at thirty-nine years old and realize that in the midst of your failure, you were slowly building the life that you wanted anyway.

Millions saw the apple fall but Newton was the one who asked why.

I'll call you," Manny said. "You do that, my man. You frickin' do that." -Manny to V

The most important thing is to forecast where customers are moving, and be in front of them.

The physician, to the extent he is a physician, considers only the good of the patient in what he prescribes, and his own not at all

People are getting attention for doing nothing, for behaving poorly, for abusing themselves in public and being abused, exploiting themselves. I find it vulgar and I find it awful.

Sometimes in common relationships,i ts hard to break the Ice,so just look hot and you'll melt it

Most of the damage we cause to the planet is the result of our own ignorance.