The ox feels the yoke, but does the bird feel the weight of its wings?

I have loved you all my life, Mal, " I whispered through my tears. "There is no end to our story.

Do you answer a question directly?""Hard to say. Ah, there, I've done it again

Mal snickered. "What's so funny?""I just pictured the Darkling being cornered by a sweaty duchess trying to have her way with him.

I may not have been completely honest about that.""You? Less than truthful? I'm shocked, Nikolai. Shocked and horrified.

He doesn’t need a donkey, ” says Ana Kuya. “He has a wife.

I opened my mouth, but the same words came to me again and again.I will not scream. I will not scream. I will not scream.

Of course I'm jealous. I thought I was going to get to punch him. That isn't the point.

David looked at me, then, the regret plain on his face. No matter what I said, we both knew the hard truth. We do our best. We try. And usually, it makes no difference at all

At that moment, the creature's back breached the waves, its body cutting through the water in a sinuous arch, rainbows sparking off the iridescent scales on its back. Rusalye.

I don't think-""Clearly. Why start now?

Imitating others, I failed to find myself. I looked inside and discovered I only knew my name. When I stepped outside I found my real Self. ~Rumi

I was raised to sense what someone wanted me to be and be that kind of person. It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.

On rare occasions one does hear of a miraculous case of a married couple falling in love after marriage, but on close examination it will be found that it is a mere adjustment to the inevitable.

This is great if you know all those "not to do" strategies. Sometimes you learn the "not to do's" by doing. The key is to fail forward fast. Try, fail, learn, and quickly try again.

A lottery is the perfect tax...laid only upon the willing.

We have woven a web, you and I, attached to this world but a separate world of our own invention.

Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.

Keeping quiet means being without any techniques, effort or intention to meditate... not following the thought stream.

If you're willing to work harder than anybody else, you can create your own luck

[Kino] worked really well as a song title, and to build into a lyric, and also how we embraced mulit-media at the time.