That which one fears, one typically won't embrace with open arms.

I'm a half-demon princess. Sure. What's so hard to grasp about that?

A sob caught in my chest. I didn't even know what a gray was, other than a drab color. All I knew was that I was hungry all the time. And I knew, deep down, that it wasn't just for food.

I had lied so much lately that I was honestly surprised my pants weren't literally made of fire.

I wanted this to be a movie on TV so I could press the off button and make it all go away.

Look at you, all Rocky Horror Picture Ho.

I took it back: he didn't just hate himself down deep. He'd made plenty of room in there for me, too.

There's something special about her. When she helped me with her touch-""Exactly what was she touching that was so memorable for you?""Watch your mouth.

Where's Kraven? Is he stalking me too?"His mouth went tight. "I'm not stalking you.

Are you following me?" He asked."Us?" I was the first to speak. "Um, maybe. Hi there. How are you tonight?"He looked at me like I might be a bit crazy.

A line of perspiration slipped down my spine like a waterslide at an unamusement park.

I get those fleeting, beautiful moments of inner peace and stillness - and then the other 23 hours and 45 minutes of the day, I'm a human trying to make it through in this world.

Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics.

I've spent half my life on planes.

Your anatomy is a mystery that nobody bothers explaining to us. Even when we think we have mastered one woman's body, every body is different.

There's no secret to working with kids. They either charm you and you can work with them, or they don't charm you and you feel you're stuck with them.

We [must] realize that our future lies chiefly in our own hands.

I don't really see the point in washing your hair. If you don't care if your hair's clean or not then why would you wash it?

It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.

Having experienced everything one time already made it easier the second time around.

The history of nations, in the sense in which I use the word, is often best studied in works not professedly historical.