Our triumphs seem hollow unless we have friends to share them, and our failures are made bearable by their understanding.

A psychological explanation of our feelings is not a moral explanation of our conduct.

At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.

He leaned up and nipped at her shoulder before reaching around to tease her nipples. "Talin." "Aye, love?" "I need you." He didn't have to be told twice.

You are the decision you make. The things you do. The people you love and who love you. They're the things that really make you who you are.

Logically, harmony must come from the heart... Harmony very much based on trust. As soon as use force, creates fear. Fear and trust cannot go together.

Influence is exerted by every human being from the hour of birth to that of death.

Would you rather die, or be unwound?

One is always changing. I don't want to write the same book and I couldn't, because I'm a different person.

When you're building something, you know all of the trade-offs.

It has been well said that an author who expects results from a first novel is in a position similar to that of a man who drops a rose petal down the Grand Canyon of Arizona and listens for the echo.

She that asks Her dear five hundred friends, contemns them all, And hates their coming.