She stretched beneath him, bare and aching, held captive by an entirely new form of magic, one she'd thought existed only in books and movies.

Still shuddering, he collapsed atop her on a long, strangled groan. It sounded as if someone had just wrung out his soul.Ella knew precisely how he felt.

Friends don't menace friends with giant terrifying swords, okay?

In a world in which the common rule which binds and regulates what the general masses feel is undermined, what the general masses feel tend to become the common rule.

If I am right about the big picture, I will be rewarded for my patience.

I understood that I might fail, but I wouldn't let it happen because I changed my compass along the way.

In a world flagrant with the failures of civilization, what is there particularly immortal about our own?

Like a satellite in orbit, Apple is perpetually falling. It just happens to miss Earth every time.

The word snob belongs to the sour-grape vocabulary.

It's more important to understand the imbalances in your body's basic systems and restore balance, rather than name the disease and match the pill to the ill.

You can eliminate color and still have a painting that works, but you must have drawing, value and design.

When black women are down with you and in your corner, you have an ally that will move Heaven and Earth.