Mathilde and Lotto held hands in the taxi going to brunch, communicating, not speaking.

Perhaps living in fear can drive all devils out of a person.

I like a bit of spunk in a lady

she'd played mother and wives. Women in narratives were always defined by their relations.

Also the fact that he's a guy. A girl screws around like Lotto and she's like diseased. Untouchable. But a guy can stick it to a million places and everyone just thinks he's doing what boys do.

Doomed people celebrate peace with sky bombs.

It was mathematical, marriage. Not, as one might expect, additional. It was exponential.

What she did not tell him balanced neatly with what she did.

When your family dismisses you, like Lotto's did, you create your own family

Don't they understand what fiction is?

He got drunk as usual, but instead of drifting to sleep, he stayed up, and at a white heat, wrote what had been sitting on his heart for decades.

Unless people are convinced about what you are asking them to do, they are not going to make it happen.

You are not what you are

Nereus spun and expanded, turning into a killer whale, but I grabbed his dorsal fin as he burst out of the water.A whole bunch of tourists went, "

The greatest danger in life is not taking chances. There are so many negative people wanting to grind you down, but you can't let them. If people say you are mad, you know you're on the right track.

A man who can be provoked by a tweet should not have his fingers anywhere near the nuclear codes.

He tasted each one of them. The raw power and majesty of Wrath. The vast strength of Rhage. The burning, protective loyalty of Phury. The cold savagery of Zsadist. The sharp cunning of Vishous.

Democracy without God is mans worship and elevation of himself and his own intelligence or humanism, where man becomes his own measure for morality, judgment, and justice.

You're either not hiring at all or it's probably your single biggest block of time.

Retrench in everything that is bad and worthless, and improve in everything that is good and beautiful.

Is it not a thing divine to have a smile which, none know how, has the power to lighten the weight of that enormous chain which all the living in common drag behind them?