No matter how we suffer, we have an obligation to others. We have to be unselfish enough to try to live in the right way, so others can get through their own lives without us fouling them up.

Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy.

And since I’m going to be in the neighborhood, you thought I might do as an escort? To an orgy?

You know I love you more when you're cold and heartless.

You trust me?" Eric sounded surprised. "Yes." "That's . . . crazy, Sookie.

Should I just bite you, and end it all?", he whispered. "I would never have to think about you again. Thinking about you is an annoying habit and one I want to be rid of.

My gran had always told me that a woman--any woman worth her salt--could do whatever she had to.

Not a creature was stirring, not even an elf.

You catch more flies with honey than you do with vinegar.

They say there's no harm in daydreaming, but there is.

Maybe she was being so hoity-toity because she didn't have her own fairy godmother.

She was so busy doing Christmas, there wasn't time to experience Christmas.

His voice is to entertainment what the kazoo is to classical music.

Your fuselage shouldn't open more easily than your pretzel bag.

It's difficult to end with bangs if the judge takes away our ammunition.

Disinformation is most effective in a very narrow context.

My technique, starting with a quick outline in pencil, is designed to record first impressions, with no time for second thoughts.

Even when people are so judgmental about what you wear or your weight you just have to step away and be like, 'I'm a normal, fine human being.'

I willingly confess that it likes me better when I find virtue in a fair lodging than when I am bound to seek it in an ill-favored creature.

Everything starts with yourself-with you making up your mind about what you're going to do with your life.

The written word still enjoyed a certain prestige here. It was a sluggish country.