The crimson leaf that blew past looked the twin of the one she'd picked up in the palace courtyard: a bloodied hand.

We keep hoping in God while reality keeps knocking at our door.

Hiding white lies only causesanxiety and low self- esteem.Melissa Mae Palmer (on living with a mysterious illness and not telling a soul)

When we see marriage as our sole purpose, we find ourselves with nowhere to go when we finally arrive.

What happened to romance? Sappy, soppy longhand love letters.

The bulk of the universities are about teaching kids.

There is something decidedly faux about the camaraderie of Facebook, something illusory about the connectedness of Twitter.

His full name is Matthew Gabriel Philippe Bertrand Sebastien de Clermont. He was also a very good Sebastien, and a passable Gabriel. He hates Bertrand and will not answer to Philippe.

Why did God create men? Because vibrators can't mow the lawn.

The combination of economic and political power in the same hands is a sure recipe for tyranny.

Cut these words and they would bleed; they are vascular and alive.