Liraz snorted, caught off guard, and the tension between them ebbed away. "I'm sorry of my almost dying interrupted your almost kissing.

If only it were that easy to let go of hate. Just relax your face.

Anyone who takes on my sister, " he had postured once, all puffed-out bravado, "will have to deal with ...my sister." And then he'd dived behind her and cowered.

There was only present, and it was infinite. The past and the future were just blinders we wore so that infinity wouldn't drive us mad.

Be a Samurai.Because you just never know what's behind the freaking sky.

Happiness wasn't a mystical place to be reached or won-some bright terrain beyond the boundary of misery, a paradise waiting for them to find it-but something to carry doggedly through everything.

ignorance and power, they´re a poor combination.

There is the past, and there is the future. The present is never more than the single second dividing one from the other. We live poised on that second as it's hurtling forward—toward what?

Life is you master, or death is.

There was darkness, and monsters vast as worlds swam in it.

...looking up at the stars, he had accepted life as a medium for action. Something to wield like a tool. One’s own life: an instrument for the shaping of the world.

Luck is when those who are prepared take advantage of the moment.

I will never want for more. You are my totality.

Can one n/ever not think?...Meditation the Art of Non-Thinking

When you love people, you want what's best for them, and sometimes what's best for them isn't you.

It's a lot like the Wild West out here... just with tea shops instead of saloons. Wild West Sahara, that is.

Time like money is measured by our needs.

You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.

Mysteries are feminine; they like to veil themselves but still want to be seen and divined.

We choose to believe in Ma'at. We create order out of chaos, beauty out of ugly randomness. That's what Egypt is all about.

You will die not because you're ill, but because you're alive.