She had known for a while that Chance would be her first. She hadn’t planned it would be tonight. But, it felt right, Fourth of July, fireworks, and her first time.

You know it is a broken society when people fear each other more than they fear wild animals.

Find me, my thief.

The Ladies of the Sacred Heart hung a thousand veils between their little charges and reality. Thérèse despised them for confounding virtue with ignorance.

You can hold on to me for as long as you want. Let go of the pain, Sookie". - Eric, Club dead.

Say, will the falcon, stooping from above, Smit with her varying plumage, spare the dove? Admires the jay the insect's gilded wings? Or hears the hawk when Philomela sings?

The best 45 years of my life were the 5 years I spent with Ton Jones.

The past is always waiting to entangle and deflect us.

Too many critics mistake the deliberations of the Congress for its decisions.

There are two kinds of disease of the soul, vice and ignorance.

Give me an honest laugher.