It’s just been my experience that some kinds of working relationships are better motivated by fear than by monetary gain.

I like the night. Without the dark, we'd never see the stars.

He sighed. "The clouds I can handle. But I can't fight with an eclipse.

Who's afraid of the big bad wolf?" Jacob Black New Moon

Who are you and what have you done with my brother?

My life was an unending, unchanging midnight. It must, by necessity, always be midnight for me. So how was it possible that the sun was rising now, in the middle of my midnight?

You're not the center of the universe, you know.

I can't always be Lois Lane," I insisted. "I want to be Superman, too.

He's like a drug for you, Bella. I see that you can't live without him now. It's too late. But I would have been healthier for you. Not a drug; I would have been the air, the sun.

There was no reason for Bella Swan to cross paths with me. She would be avoided like the plague she was.

My last night as Isabella Swan. Tomorrow night, I would be Bella Cullen. Though the whole marriage ordeal was a thorn in my side, I had to admit that I liked the sound of that. - bella swan

Uncertainty is the refuge of hope.

If you Succeed you will LEAD, if you Failed you will become WISE.

Don't we all hope to die with a smile on our faces?

Numerical superiority is of no consequence. In battle, victory will go to the best tactician."- G. A. Custer

Art without color would lose much of its purpose.

I had two experiences of criminality: one was my conman father, the other was teaching at Eton

When I get sick, I go to my doctor like everyone else. A doctor has powerful tools that may help me. Or those tools may hurt me, make me worse. I have to decide. It's my life. It's my responsibility.

The starship thing is really political action and reaction, the natural outgrowth of Volunteers.

When you write for children and young adults, you have much more affect and influence on them than when you write for adults. The books that get us through our childhood stay with us for life.

The great snare of thought is uncritical acceptance of irrational assumptions.