No problem, Goth Boy. First one's free.

Better to be strong than pretty and useless.

What you cannot escape, you must fight; what you cannot fight, you must endure.

I went to the entrance to the restroom, where the hallway did a sharp bend so nobody could peek into the girls' pee-palace.

What you can't run away from, you have to face

Are you listening, little bird?

Christophe, with the careful tone of an adult telling a kid not to pet the nice foaming-rabid pooch.

If something is visceral and unsettling for me, my job is to not look away, not to punk out. Sometimes the dark things come from places inside me, experiences Ive had, that need to be transformed.

That's the funny thing about old hurts- they just wait for new heartache to come along and then show up, just as sharp and horrible as the first day you woke up with the world changed all around you.

His eyebrows drew together. He was perilously close to unibrow; I guess nobody had held him down and administered a good plucking to the caterpillar climbing across his forehead.

The only place their voices were left was in my head. It was better than being alone but it was so, so lonely.

Since the Americans have ceased to have dyspepsia, they have lost the only thing that gave them any expression.

I don't have anything against Canadians or Australians.

Relationship networking is about who you know and more importantly, who knows you. Building the right network can open new doors to future success in your business.

I am an old-fashioned, honest-to-goodness, flag waving patriot.

What other movement determines the S line? Its aesthetic efficacity has long been noted by artists.

We've come a long way in our thinking, but also in our moral decay. I can't imagine Dr. King watching the 'Real Housewives' or 'Jersey Shore.'

It's never a good idea to ask a man on a tight-rope how he keeps his balance: a) he would probably fall off and b) he probably doesn't know what the muscles are called in any case.

New Orleans jazz is a complex and embracing art form that began about the same time as the blues and encompassed many of its excellences.

Sylvia Day delivers readers to a fantasy world as unique as it is erotic! Ms. Day is an up-and-coming talent in the world of erotic fiction. [on Pleasures of the Night ]

A writer is a maker, not a man of action: his private life is of no concern to anybody but himself, his family and his friends.