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

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.

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

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

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.

You can't lose in sales if you remember that you're not selling

It is the same with people as it is with riding a bike. Only when moving can one comfortably maintain one's balance.

At some point I stopped stand-up because I didn't have something to say on a nightly basis.

I've always dreamed of doing a period piece, I just never knew what it would be.

I'm me on the mound. I like to show my emotion, be real aggressive and give everything I've got for one half inning. I don't have to act. What you see on the mound is what I am in real life.

Like some high official, you have to tell your brain: 'Do it. Come on. I have to do it.'

Don't forget I'm just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her.

Do not forget that the Arab countries, starting with Algeria and Egypt, are the ones that have paid the heaviest toll because of Islamic terror.

The great source of pleasure is variety.

Grown old in love from seven till seven times seven,I oft have wished for Hell for ease from Heaven.