Sophia got up, taking one last look at the extraordinary daughter Councilor Nikita Duncan had borne.

I will love you until the day they put me in the earth.

A queen keeps a court that is spoken about. A goddess keeps a court that is never forgotten.

Emotion without reason lets people walk all over you; reason without emotion is a mask for cruelty.

Your name is written on my heart, Lily

You trying to make me crazy?” “Everyone needs a hobby.

But you, you’ve always been the rain, the wind, inside my mind. I taste you when I sleep, when I wake, when I breathe.

Bluebell, you couldn’t take me if I was blindfolded and had both hands tied behind my back.” “Bluebell?” Illium narrowed his eyes. “That’s it, Barbarian.

Some things were worth the dance with danger.

To fight evil, you have to understand the dark.

You’ll have to be my conscience.” He knew his flaws, and he knew the parts of him that were irrevocably broken. “Mine isn’t going to grow back.

It was a rotten time to try to be a man in America. Until Blue came along I’d never even spent time around a man. Hell, I’d never even seen one. Where were all the men in this once great land?

I think of it like a caterpillar--a wrinkly, ugly worm with traces of dull colors on it. But when the worm metamorphoses, it becomes something truly beautiful.” Charli

Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.

Starting out to make money is the greatest mistake in life. Do what you feel you have a flair for doing, and if you are good enough at it, the money will come.

Sometimes I feel like I float in and out of different personalities.

In the absence of evidence, the scientist says, 'I don't know,' but the religionist says, 'I believe.'

The gloves are like a second skin. They are part of me. An extension of me. I become hyperreal.

Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.

For more than two centuries since winning our own freedom, we the people of the United States have repeatedly answered the call to lead the quest for freedom around the globe.

Some players when they become No. 1 they put too much pressure on themselves.