My world was changing, and I was not ready for it.

You will find the way, daughter of the forest. Through grief and pain, through many trials, through betrayal and loss, your feet will walk a straight path.

All that he had of her was his memory, where he held every moment, every single moment that she had been his. That was all he had, to keep out the loneliness.

Three children lay on the rocks at the water's edge.A dark-haired girl, two boys, slightly older.This image is caught forever in my memory, like some fragile creature preserved in amber.

For the others, it was still just a tale, like all the tales we told, night by night, tales comical and strange, tales heroic and awe-inspiring, the tales that formed the fabric of our spirits.

His eyes reflected the open grey of the autumnal sky.

Perhaps this is what the stories meant when they called somebody heartsick. Your heart and your stomach and your whole insides felt hollow and empty and aching.

Losing your life is not the worst thing that can happen. The worst thing is to lose your reason for living.

It's not love or anything, but I think I like you, too.

Finding a soulmate is an easy adventure, but the difficult part admist the game is finding your kind of person.

Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about science, because our knowledge of it is limited and unofficial, and usually our fiction is dreadful.

I don't give a damn about semi-radicals!

It is wonderful, for almost all his actions may be traced to pride;-and pride has often been his best friend.

I don't go anywhere without my iPod, laptop and at least one book.

The most glorious exploits do not always furnish us with the clearest discoveries of virtue or vice in men.

Once you start copying other people's licks, you begin thinking they're yours. Doing that's just an easy way out.

It was believed by the purveyors of male fantasies in films that nurses were a popular male fantasy because they were caring, and they were women who could legitimately touch men all over.