It was always the view of my parents, " Emily said, "that hot weather encouraged loose morals among young people.

The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realignment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse.

Wasn't writing a kind of soaring, an achievable form of flight, of fancy, of the imagination?

And though you think the world is at your feet, it can rise up and tread on you.

He knew these last lines by heart and mouthed them now in the darkness. My reason for life. Not living, but life. That was the touch. And she was his reason for life, and why he must survive.

At that moment, the urge to be writing was stronger than any notion she had of what she might write.

We go on our hands and knees and crawl our way towards the truth

Above all, she wanted to look as though she had not given the matter a moment's thought, and that would take time.

In that shrinking moment he discovered that he had never hated anyone until now. It was a feeling as pure as love, but dispassionate and icily rational.

It wasn't torpor that kept her - she was often restless to the point of irritability. She simply liked to feel that she was prevented from leaving, that she was needed.

He had never before felt so self-consciously young, nor experienced such appetite, such impatience for the story to begin.

...but the tenure of friendships has never been governed by the passage of time.

Revenge tightens the heart as much as the jaw. (La vengeance serre le cœur - Autant que la mâchoire)

West of Arkham the hills rise wild, and there are valleys with deep woods that no axe has ever cut.

Did you know I have always suspected that men were idiots," Daphne ground out, "but I was never positive until today.

I'm a designer. I make clothes and bags and shoes. I have a job that involves making creative choices, but I'm not a divinely inspired human being like an artist!

Each actor is a very different person, and each one has to be directed very differently.

Each man has an aptitude born with him. Do your work.

Business people don't need to understand designers better. They need to be designers.

Curiosity is the hunger of the human mind.

Sometimes, unfortunately, when we make choices there are consequences but, ultimately, the longer we keep things down and hold them secret, the longer the enemy can use them against us.