The sky was a feather blanket of clouds, save for one blue hole in the fabric. A blue cloud in a white sky.

She’d felt it before, she felt it now: the pull to fall in with him, to fall into him, to lose her sense of self.

It was wrong to want to touch a scar and call it beautiful.

It was different to give something up than to see it taken away. The difference, Kestrel said, was choice.

You can't see both sides of one coin at once, can you, child? The god of money always keeps a secret.The god of money was also the god of spies.

Neither super strength, nor telepathy, nor flight, nor telekinesis, nor any aberrant ability will ever be as great as the innate ability that a woman has when she is able to control her own mind.

His shrill cries flood the forest like light engulfing a silhouette.

Your purpose is your profession.

It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment.

We need an energy revolution by breaking our dependence on fossil fuels, polluting fuels... I am very, very confident our small state will lead this. We will be noticed by the country and the world.

Music says so much. Really specific but those are also real tonal things as well.

But perhaps this is what goes wrong with long marriages--you state your opinions, your likes and dislikes, at the beginning and then forget to mention when they change" (135).

Every man obeys Christ as he prizes Christ, and no otherwise.

We need a more diversified portfolio of change-making tools so that we don't just get so freaked out by whatever's happening in the political corner.

You climb to the summit and there is nothing there.