The calmness was fracturing, tendrils of fear seeping through her mind like ivy. Once the fear consumed her, she'd run.

Everything she knew about him rushed through her mind like a tidal wave.

Fear blossomed within her - not like a flower, but like blood welling from a gunshot wound, spreading throughout her entire body.

If she was going to die she wanted to go out with chocolate in one hand and a shopping bag in the other.

Life is about juggling obligations, Valerie. You need to study smarter, not harder.

My past conduct was so transparent and so honest that when my enemies spread rumours about me nobody believed them.

Motivations take you there. Tell yourself you are powerful enough to make it, and it will surprise you that.. that power will start manifesting itself.

Right away I thought I'd been hit by a hand grenade ... her (Joni Mitchells') voice, those words ... she nailed me to the back wall with two-inch spikes... I promptly fell in love with her...

In politics, every year in the White House is like dog years, it takes off seven years of your life.

When I first started to get into writing, it was via music. I'd generate ideas for songs that would turn into stories, then they'd turn into novels. I was biased toward music.

I find medicine is the best of all trades because whether you do any good or not you still. Get your money.

Just because it is an All-Star Game doesn't mean that you are playing as efficiently as you should.

Christ's riches are unsearchable, and this doctrine of the gospel is the field this treasure is hidden in.

I am a completely horizontal author. I can't think unless I'm lying down, either in bed or stretched on a couch.