It's amazing what the discovery of a corpse can do for one's spirits.

Dreamless nights, I knew, can be the most troubling, since you come back not knowing where you've been or what you've done.

I do not encourage early morning chirpiness, even in those whom I know and love. It is generally a sign of a sloppy mind, and is not to be encouraged.

You can learn from a glance at anyone's library, not what they are, but what they wish to be.

Growing up is like that, I suppose. The strings fall away and you're left standing on your own.

As anybody with two older sisters can tell you, a closed door is like a red rag to a bull. It cannot go unchallenged.

Love is love, wherever you may find it—even when it's covered in feathers.

I could tell he was becoming sulky, as boys and men do when they're caught bluffing. And I ignored him, as girls and women do when they catch them out.

True charity, I had had discovered, consists of swallowing an invisible flaming sword.

When you're suffering, you're oversensitive to everything.

Elise?" He looked at her with a pleading, puppy-dog expression in his eyes."Yes?""I love you.

When you see something wrong and fail to do anything about it, even in the smallest effort, you accept the wrong.

Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.

Possessions are not God's blessing and goodness, but the opportunities of service which he entrusts to us.

The secret of success is to do the common things uncommonly well.

The real, in all this efforts, is that we climb just for climbing.

Buy a steak for a player on another club after the game, but don't even speak to him on the field. Get out there and beat them to death.

Speculative fiction is where my heart lies. It's what I read growing up, and it's what I read as an adult.

You know what the crummiest feeling you can have is? To hate the person you love the best in the world.