It was brave," countered Issa. "It was rare. It was love, and it was beautiful.

Stars got tangled in her hair whenever she played in the sky.

Light coursed through Karou and darkness chased it-burning through her, chilling her, shimmer and shadow, ice and fire, blood and starlight, rushing, roaring, filling her.

She moved like a poem and smiled like a sphinx.

Once upon a time, an angel and a devil fell in love. It did not end well.

Like a magpie, I am a scavenger of shiny things: fairy tales, dead languages, weird folk beliefs, fascinating religions, and more.

A man once said, 'All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.' Mark Twain, you know. He had a fine mustache. Men of wisdom so often do.

Hope can be a powerful force. Maybe there's no actual magic in it, but when you know what you hope for most and hold it like a light within you, you can make things happen, almost like magic.

She knocked and waited, because when the door was opened from within, it had the potential to lead someplace quite different.

Where am I and doing what? You might well ask. Freaky chick, you say? You can't imagine. I am priestess of a sandcastle in a land of dust and starlight.

I am one of billions. I am stardust gathered fleetingly into form. I will be ungathered. The stardust will go on to be other things someday and I will be free.

Whatever it takes to find the real you, don't be daunted if the rest of the world looks on in shock.

But in the end, black can never be white, one plus one must always equal two, and Mara Lynn was a normal little girl.

Even if I take him out for three hours every day, and go and chat to him for another hour, that leaves twenty hours for him all alone with nothing to do. Oh, why can't dogs read?

I believe that by living as athletes we live more fully.

With a little study you'll go a long ways, and I wish you'd start now

The Muse gave the Greeks genius and the art of the well-turned phrase.

Remain grateful for every outcome. Every outcome. Gratitude is the connecting energy to God.

Grow as a palm-tree on God's Mount Zion; howbeit shaken with winds, yet the root is fast.

Can you cook books and feed them to your husband? Stay at home with your mother. Learn to cook and clean. Grow vegetables.

There is nothing stronger than human prejudice.