Well, you will have to do. If you had died along with your mother, I would have taught the cat to read.

Tea is the magic key to the vault where my brain is kept.

If wits were pins, the man would be a veritable hedgehog.

Oh, painted smirk of a hopeless dawn, the girl is still wearing her breeches.

I want my chirfugging goose back!

Brand a man as a thief and no one will ever hire him for honest labor - he will be a hardened robber within weeks. The brand does not reveal a person's nature, it shapes it.

You’re a peach full of poison, you know that?" Mosca snapped back, but could not quite keep a hint of admiration from her tone.

I am anything I wish to be. The world cannot choose for me. No, it is for me to choose what the world shall be.

In Mosca’s experience, a ‘long story’ was always a short story someone did not want to tell.

The world is like a broken wrist that healed the wrong way, and will never be the same again.

Everybody knew that books were dangerous. Read the wrong book, it was said, and the words crawled around your brain on black legs and drove you mad, wicked mad.

I think being a woman is like being Irish... Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the time.

Being an author, writing a book was great fun. Publishing and marketing, not so fun.

To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun.

If you take any world problem, any issue on the planet, the solution to that problem certainly includes education. In education, the roadblock is the laptop.

I didn’t study medicine to watch people die." -Kira

I think La Liga is the best league in the world.

What still amuses me a bit is that in F1 people see the race basically on TV screens. But I am sure new tracks will be built.

the way to wean any one from a desire is not by condemnation of it.

Writing is the toughest thing I've ever done.

I think often times if a guitar riff is centered around the chorus or if it follows the chorus, then it often times turns into the actual hook.