Tana. In all my long life, though there were many times I prayed for it, no one has ever saved me. No one but you.

Mutually assured destruction.

Clever as the Devil and twice as pretty.

Every hero is the villain of his own story.

Ah coffee. The sweet balm by which we shall accomplish today's tasks.

You're like this leopard who's pretending to be a house cat.

Those who really love you don't mean to hurt you and if they do, you can't see it in their eyes but it hurts them too.

Jewels, lies, slips of paper, dried flowers, memories of thing long past, useless quotations, idle hands, beads, buttons, and mischief.

Put your puppet on the throne." said Talathain. "You may make her Queen but she won’t be Queen for long.

There’s nothing like a gunshot to make you the life of the party.

If curiosity killed the cat, it was satisfaction that brought it back.

We should always respect our teachers, because transforming children into knowledge-oriented young people is a precious and extremely difficult job.

The selfishness of humanity is rooted in the self-destructive nature of man through sin. Romans 6:23

To ease another’s heartache is to forget one’s own.

Patience was not something that came naturally to me, but in cooking it is the quintessential skill.

Thumbs grow into my throat. I wear slaps like a spot of rouge.

I'm always learning from experiences because each one is different and there are different players involved in the project at the time with their own way of doing things

What place is so rugged and so homely that there is no beauty; if you only have a sensibility to beauty?

Relationship gurus always said that an attraction based on friendship and mutual respect was far more likely to stay the course - and the bastards were right.

There is no being so poor and so contemptible, who does not think there is somebody still poorer, and still more contemptible.

I guess I'm a Holy Spirit maniac. I'm not a religious maniac. I love religion, but I don't like it.