The cards spoke to a suspicion that many whose work is play can never be free of: that you can only flaunt your triviality for so long before punishment is due.

Other things my best friend said to me: That two years was but a short span.

She had to quickly pop back to the fifteenth century to find a word for how beautiful he was. The boy was makeless.

It was the usual struggle between one who loves by accepting burdens and one who loves by refusing to be one.

With boys there was a fundamental assumption that they had a right to be there—not always, but more often than not. With girls, Why her? came up so quickly.

A library at night is full of sounds: the unread books can't stand it any longer and announce their contents, some boasting, some shy, some devious.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT PAGE: To my daughter, if you ever date anyone like the men I write, I will kick your *ss up between your ears and you will walk sideways for a month, but I’ll still love you.

Oh what a shame, if she thought any beauty that she has came from him. She didn't understand the beauty of her own skin.

The obstacles of life is meant to make us better, not bitter.

Off so stupid mothers... so stupid plans... what are you planning..., for god sake???

All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.

Decorators should always remember that letting a client see too many beautiful things is a pitfall.

Commercial society regards people as bundles of appetites, a conception that turns human beings inside out, leaving nothing to be regarded as inherently private.

There is a point. I don't know what it is, but everything I've had, and everything I've lost, and everything I felt—it meant something.

With fantasy and sci-fi, it's based in a real fandom. You're presenting to experts, and their source material is really important to them.

The Olympics is not for tennis and tennis does not need the Olympics. It is not my goal in life to win a gold medal.