Takan had never truly defeated Zyid. Zyid had given his life to calm Takan's soul.

I write for what's left of the eight-year-old still rattling around inside my head

She was quiet for a moment or two. Then she said: Cruel words are a terrible thing, Quash. Sometimes you regret them. But what's been said cannot be unsaid.

Of course I get hurt.

Power people are generally threatened by authority people.

If you are always allowed to stop training whenever you feel discomfort, you will find it too easy to give yourself permission to quit.

I didn't talk to anybody and say, "I'm going to do a speech, do you go some ideas?" This is something I did on my own because I care very deeply about the country.

I am happy to be a role model for anybody - whether they are black, white, yellow, pink or purple.

She wanted to lose herself in him. To tie his arms around her like a tourniquet. If she showed him how much she needed him, he'd run away.

A winning wave, (deserving note.) In the tempestuous petticote, A careless shoe-string, in whose tye I see a wilde civility,-- Doe more bewitch me than when art Is too precise in every part.

Putin wants to reestablish Russian greatness, not as the Cold War, but in 19th century empire terms.