It is my belief that books are living things.

Mutually assured destruction.

Clever as the Devil and twice as pretty.

Every hero is the villain of his own story.

Ah coffee. The sweet balm by which we shall accomplish today's tasks.

You're like this leopard who's pretending to be a house cat.

Those who really love you don't mean to hurt you and if they do, you can't see it in their eyes but it hurts them too.

Jewels, lies, slips of paper, dried flowers, memories of thing long past, useless quotations, idle hands, beads, buttons, and mischief.

Put your puppet on the throne." said Talathain. "You may make her Queen but she won’t be Queen for long.

There’s nothing like a gunshot to make you the life of the party.

If curiosity killed the cat, it was satisfaction that brought it back.

... he wasn't crying for the woman who had died. He was crying for the woman she had been.

Let the results be a by-product of you taking impeccable steps day-in and day-out.

Prejudice does not mean false ideas, but only ... opinions adopted before examination.

Cruelty to children is the thing I can least bear in the world.

So she doesn't call desertion, poverty, and hard work troubles? She's a brave little girl, and I shall be proud to know her.

Everything that is true is authentic.

Yesterdays depth is feeling very shallow, I wanna go deeper, deeper still.

A healthy social life is found only, when in the mirror of each soul the whole community finds its reflection, and when in the whole community the virtue of each one is living.

Did you ever have a sister? did you?

And when love speaks, the voice of all the gods makes Heaven drowsy with the harmony.