She sits up. I can’t read her expression, but her cheeks look a little pink. “I didn’t think you were going to be here.” “I live here.

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.

It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper.

Being gifted means facing the next level of depth without ever being repulsed by the curse that comes with the magic of being different.

You're better off missing a bus or an airplane once in a while than you are getting there too early all the time.

Life might take you down different roads. But each of you gets to decide which one to take.

I know people that I respect and admire and look up to who have had extra-marital affairs.

The greatest reward is not what we receive for our labor, but what we become by it.

My nature is orderly and observant and scrupulous and deeply introverted.

My father was a Methodist and my mother was a Baptist.