She sat in the dew-damp grass and ripped up clumps of it, tossing them in the air and feeling vaguely guilty about it. Some gnome ought to pop out of the tree and scold her for torturing the lawn.

Mutually assured destruction.

Clever as the Devil and twice as pretty.

Every hero is the villain of his own story.

Ah coffee. The sweet balm by which we shall accomplish today's tasks.

You're like this leopard who's pretending to be a house cat.

Those who really love you don't mean to hurt you and if they do, you can't see it in their eyes but it hurts them too.

Jewels, lies, slips of paper, dried flowers, memories of thing long past, useless quotations, idle hands, beads, buttons, and mischief.

Put your puppet on the throne." said Talathain. "You may make her Queen but she won’t be Queen for long.

There’s nothing like a gunshot to make you the life of the party.

If curiosity killed the cat, it was satisfaction that brought it back.

Always be gentle.

You will only fail to learn if you do not learn from failing.

Once you start being a muse, you cannot stop being a muse.

We Americans are not God's covenant people. America has, in any event, no biblical guarantee of perpetuity.

I'm coming for you. I'm coming home, I'm coming to clean

Nobody's born rotten. You just don't have bad kids. It's not true. There is no such thing. But we can make them bad.

This is Buffalo, New York. It's like. Scranton without the charm.

It is not in virtue of its liberty that the human will attains to grace, it is much rather by grace that it attains to liberty.

I'm lucky to have family around me. Otherwise, I'll be taking the risk of falling in love with myself.

World will prosper in knowledge and intellect, if both men and women are deemed equal.