Kizzy wanted it all so bad her soul leaned half out of her body hungering after it, and that was what drove the goblins wild, her soul hanging out there like an untucked shirt.

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.

To Donal Trump, making America great means making the people great. To the political cast, conversely, making America great means making government great.

We cannot fight against the poverty and hunger in the world

In war the moral is to the material as three to one. Napoleon

In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God.

Our guest tonight is Michelle Obama, first lady of the United States. She's here to announce her run for president.

Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context.

We know there is intention and purpose in the universe, because there is intention and purpose in us.

I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colors is black.

I like to stay in a hotel where it's a dome of silence. I can sit in my room and do nothing.

Man must conquer nature.