What is the point of being on this Earth if you are going to be like everyone else?

There are no shortcuts—everything is reps, reps, reps.

The difference between those who adapted and those who didn't, Gorton said, was a willingness to totally commit.

He had a voice you couldn't miss: strong and penetrating with strange vowels that sounded different from the accents of other English speakers even to me. I later discovered that he was Canadian.

...that was before I'd started thinking about how life stuck on a ship wouldn't be so bad if Elder walked around pantless more.

Dear God. She ached, wanting something that she knew was a sin.Wanting a man who was sin itself.

She liked the life she had. She loved habits. She craved a day with nothing in it, a long, quiet stretch of hours in the studio.

Foreknowledge is power.

I don't regret anything.

My views on virginity have not changed.

I beg the Most High to allow me the favour of the double reward, but if God only finds me worthy of one reward, I will accept it in all humility.

If you're going to think mean things about me or not be a true friend, then we don't need to be friends.

Always watch the hands. The hands will tell you everything you need to know.

Wine is something to enjoy. We get sick and tired of people who pick it apart and talk about its 'saucy nuances.'