Let the fairy tale begin on a winter's morning, then, with one drop of blood newly-fallen on the ivory snow: a drop as bright as a clear-cut ruby, red as a single spot of claret on the lace cuff.

Across the troubled maelstrom of time, people always need a beer.

Is this politics? I suppose I am going to have to learn all about it, if I am to run Lord Ferris's household, and throw parties and all. Now...explain to me again just who hates who, and why?

Not being the sort to throw a book, she pounded her fist on her cushion.

Honest change? Honest? Has someone altered the definition of the word while my back was turned, or have you recently developed a sense of humor?

Utterly ingenious! Tiffany Trent has more fine invention at her fingertips than a roomful of magical Leonardos!

Yo-Yo Ma and Bobby McFerrin together again for the first time.

Dream big. Find what makes you happy, and pursue it as you would food and warmth. You deserve it. And if you don’t, then do what it takes to become worthy of it.

In a city where most of the wealth is controlled by a small few, certain things are overlooked, particularly when it comes to the assertion of privilege.

Holly Black is the Real Thing: a gifted writer with a solid grounding in what matters. Her stories are dark and splendid blooms rising from roots sunk deep in myth and tradition.

We were familiar with the line that separates grief from madness, and we know that sometimes the only way to stay on the right side of it is to scream.

I can't let important policy decisions hinge on the fact that an election is coming up every 90 days.

She teaches me that the world is made to be pounced on and enjoyed, and that there is absolutely no reason at all to hold back.

We have to adapt and overcome, that's all we can do.

That the good that we do might live on after us, while the evil lies interred with their bones.

I do think we lost some of the focus on the attacks in San Bernardino and focused on a plan that isn't really a plan and is never going to happen.

The real past can traumatize us, but so can the real future.

I've been accused of being aloof. I'm not. I'm just wary.

The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy.

If you are somebody to anybody, you're somebody.