Pretending to feel something you don't can often lead you to the real thing, in some form.

What was the point, I had to wonder, of fighting so hard to learn to protect my life if I was destroying it in the process?

No. Not a death wish. Just very little left to lose.

It might have been my human side clamoring for blood, or my alien side looking for a chance to exercise strategic dominance over a lesser life form. Either way, I was going to win.

That was, in fact, my life. A whole series of reasonable lies.

So it turns out that late-night flashes of brilliance often look a little less brilliant in the bright light of morning.

So what did it matter where she came from? Who-or what-her parents were? Everyone's family was messed up in some way including my own. And she was still the same Ariane.

Yeah, Quirrell was a great teacher. There was just that minor drawback of him having Lord Voldemort sticking out of the back of his head!

Elle wondered if heart could smile, because she felt that her joy reached her inner being.

Some tourist think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a ciry of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.

People love dogs. This is, I hope, the least surprising sentence you will read in this book. I myself have had long discussions with my dog friends, and by that I mean my friends who are dogs.

Love, consciousness, and creativity are the highest refinements of the cosmic evolutionary force.

In heaven after ages of ages of growing glory, we shall have to say, as each new wave of the shoreless, sunlit sea bears us onward, It doth not yet appear what we shall be.

I was learning that if I lived slightly in the future-what will happen next-I didn't have to feel so much about what was going on in the present.

Fill the day with enthusiasm. Give the day all you've got and it will give you all it's got, which will be plenty.

I know that people think of my work from the '70s as American, but I've been going to other places for a long time.

It's great to see a relatable, accessible young woman out there, doing things and breaking the barriers for what would be considered an action movie.