It was different to give something up than to see it taken away. The difference, Kestrel said, was choice.

She’d felt it before, she felt it now: the pull to fall in with him, to fall into him, to lose her sense of self.

It was wrong to want to touch a scar and call it beautiful.

The sky was a feather blanket of clouds, save for one blue hole in the fabric. A blue cloud in a white sky.

You can't see both sides of one coin at once, can you, child? The god of money always keeps a secret.The god of money was also the god of spies.

I feel like my life started the moment I met you, " he murmured.

Being a personality is not the same thing as having a personality.

We find heroes, not on battlefields, but in hospitals that tend the injured. Sometimes I think it’s easier to fight than it is to heal.

There is really only one Zen Master ... and that's yourself.

I couldn't imagine somebody like Osama bin Laden understanding the joy of Chanukah.

Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.

I can't help it if the ladies take note of me; I am not going to protest.

And the council doesn’t recognize any kind of temporary insanity defense. Which was a real shame, because most of the councilmen had considered me crazy for most of my life.

Relationships end, but they don't end your life.

I get quiet joy from the observation of anyone who does his job well.