Soon he would be able to touch her, to feel the warmth of her blood. When the time came, nothing would stop him.

Smiles were rare in this house. Smiles had to be bought and paid for.

The best way of keeping a low profile was to immerse himself in the mundane. Act like them, talk like them. A smile, a joke was all it took - at least during the day. The night was his own.

Their attention was focused on the strange kid who wore black eyeliner and dressed as if every day was a funeral.

If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it would not seem so wonderful at all.

A man may study because his brain is hungry for knowledge, even Bible knowledge. But he prays because his soul is hungry for God.

Sometimes we face “gray areas, ” things that aren’t necessarily forbidden by the Bible but still may not belong in our lives.

I deserve more. I mean I understand I do. Once you’ve protected someone the way you protected me, you get… well, protective. But I’m no longer that sixteen-year-old girl, Archer. I’m a grown woman.

Science is uneasy with beginnings. Mythology is concerned above all with what happened "in the beginning". Its signature is "Once upon a time".

When we do evil We and our victims Are equally bewildered.

The purpose of life is to amount to something and have it make some difference that you lived at all.

I like it when journalists are nice to me, and it's happening more and more.

The only guaranteed way to make something not very funny is to make it vague.