Stu looked over his shoulder at the trailer. "She seems like a nice old lady, but jeez, that's a big dog." "Yes, " said Liam. "But a small dragon.

Pain is mostly mind over matter: if you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

It's about damned time, " he said in a husky voice. "If I had to wait five more minutes to kiss you, I think I probably would have turned into a dragon myself.

So, Sheriff, " she said. "How do you feel about a life of crime?

Mrs. Ivanov's gentle face was pale and bewildered, her wrinkles falling in on themselves as though they'd given up trying to hold on to any expression other than sorrow.

The pain of severe depression is quite unimaginable to those who have not suffered it, and it kills in many instances because its anguish can no longer be borne.

Time collapses and expands like an erratic accordion.

Leadership implies movement toward something and convictions provide that direction.

Our value is built into us, and nothing and no one can take it away.

The Iranians are very skilled terrorist, and we'd have to expect that they'd hit at us as hard as they could. Especially in Iraq, where they have a great deal of power and influence.

There are people who are always, I think, going to remain people of the book, to use another author's title, but people of the book, who really must be around.

Performance of duty and observance of morality are convertible terms.

No one is sane, straight along, year in and year out, and we all know it. Our insanities are of varying sorts, and express themselves in varying forms-fortunately harmless forms as a rule.

Spring rain leaking through the roof dripping from the wasps' nest.

The past is history written in stone that can't be altered. The future is transitory and never guaranteed. Today is the only thing you can alter for certain. Make the most of it.