Once again, I had that feeling of drowning when I hadn’t even known I was in the pool

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.

Mammy's heart was like a pallid beach where Laila's footprints would forever wash away beneath the waves of sorrow that swelled and crashed, swelled and crashed.

Everybody's business is nobody's business, and nobody's business is my business.

Who thinks, at night, that morn will ever be? Who knows, far out upon the central sea, That anywhere is land? And yet, a shore Has set behind us, and will rise before: A past foretells a future.

Cinderella is not only an iconic character when it comes to beauty, grace and fairytale love, but also shoes.

My test for veracity has always been: How this will settle with a person who is dying? Boundlessness seemed to me to open the door to the true nature of mind that is pointed to in the Heart Sutra.

If our society continues at its present rate to become less livable as it becomes more affluent, we promise all to end up in sumptuous misery.

I think that truth is stranger than fiction, and it's nice to know the people you're making a movie about.

What if trials of this life, the rain, the storms, the hardest nights, are Your mercies in disguise?

It has taken a weary long time to persuade American Presbyterians to give up infant damnation and try to bear it the best they can.

When you're the son of an immigrant who came here seeking freedom, it makes you appreciate.