So, is that your long scaly reptilian tail, or are you just happy to see me?

Tiago turned to survey the large, crowded ballroom. "Good job not killing anybody.""That's what Pia said, " Dragos told him. "Night's not over yet.

How exactly does one break the news to her husband that she's standing in a closet with the dead body of one of their dinner guests?

It now seemed to me that all my other guesses had been only self-pleasing dreams spun out of my wishes, but now I was awake.

Rebel children, I urge you, fight the turgid slick of conformity with which they seek to smother your glory.

We may be personally defeated, but our principles never!

I envision someday a great, peaceful South Africa in which the world will take pride, a nation in which each of many different groups will be making its own creative contribution.

Do noble things, not dream them all day long.

One very clear memory I have of college is that I never learned anything in the big lectures. I have a feeling I'd have done even worse if they'd been on a laptop screen.

I want to get a farm where I am going to live for the rest of my life. I like the idea of a secluded place.

I felt my face stretch in a victorious smile. The potion had worked. I was inside. I had to suppress an urge to break into a soft shoe routine. Sometimes being able to use magic was so cool.

The best part about burning your candle at both ends is that everything is much brighter in the middle.

I love to be envied, and would not marry a wife that I alone could love; loving alone is as dull as eating alone.