Simon gave her a startled look. 'I don't believe I have ever been condescended to by a woman before.' She shrugged. 'It was probably past time.

It's the curse of motherhood. You're required to love us even when we vex you.

And if you say that's because you lot barged into her home like a herd of mentally deficient sheep, I'm disowning all three of you.

There were rules among friends, commandments, really, and the most important one was Thou Shalt Not Lust After Thy Friend's Sister.

Any man, you'll soon learn, has an insurmountable need to blame someone else when he is made to look a fool.

Did you know I have always suspected that men were idiots, " Daphne ground out, "but I was never positive until today.

what a sad pair we are, " she said. "Surely we can manage a conversation on a topic other than our respective terrible evenings.

I talk to children like adults and to adults like children.

Friendship takes time.

I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.

Seriously, I have the best fans ever.

In cooking, as in all the arts, simplicity is the sign of perfection.

It's never over. You don't want to be in the position to be down four runs in the ninth inning, but it's not over until the last out.

On the new earth heaven we will have perfect bodies, resistant to any ailment. Our new bodies will continue on forever, without missing a beat.

The solitary knows the essence of the thought, the scholar in society only its fair face.

Racism is an effect of slavery, not the other way around. Once slavery was abolished, not only did racism not disappear, neither did the economic system it upheld.

Protest is when I say...'I don't agree with something'.... Resistance is when I ensure that things with which I disagree no longer take place