She was thirty-five, and she did not look a minute younger.

Steampunk is what happens when goths discover brown

It's funny what they say about men in uniform - how people think women just can't resist 'em. Fact is, I think we're just pleased to see a man groomed, bathed, and wearing clothes that fit him.

It was a train full of strangers, and they were all the same.

I've heard it said that God made all men, but Samuel Colt made all men equal. We'd see what Mr. Colt could do for a woman.

You're a smart boy. Or if you're not, you ought to be.

Sometimes, everyone is right. Not always and not even usually, but once in a while, everyone is right.

And people tended not to bother a woman with a book.

I hate to make the comparison here, but think of me as one of those expensive boutiques. If you have to ask about the cost, you probably can’t afford me.

In California there were nuggets the size of walnuts lying on the ground—or so it was said, and truth travels slowly when rumors have wings of gold.

The distance between an honest Christian mystic and a fortune-teller is sometimes less than half a whisper. Less than a pot of tea or the space between two book covers.

Pippa's laugh is bitter, tinged with tears. 'Ha! Why do girls think being beautiful will solve every problem? Being beautiful just creates problems. It's a misery. I wish I were someone else.

Some people would not be dead if they have not gotten the things or people they had prayed for.

He wanted nothing to do with her. He wanted everything to do with her.

Bad grammar is the leading cause of slow, painful death in North America.

I was filled with dread at the thought my mind had skipped town and left me behind to pay the rent." --Dexter

Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.

Man - a figment of God's imagination.

I hospitalized a rock, killed a brick...I'm so bad I make medicine sick!

When life closes a door, God opens a window.

In the same way Marxism robs workers of ambition, Feminism robs men and women of love.