When Chong made to sit down next to her, Lilah drew her knife and stabbed the point into the earth between them. "I can see that you need some quiet time," he said and scuttled quickly away.

I’m not sure I could trust a man who would bypass an Oreo in favor of vanilla wafers. It’s a fundamental character flaw, possibly a sign of true evil.

There are moments that define a person's whole life. MOMENTS in which everything they are and everything they may possibly become hinge on a single decision.

I've managed to stay alive out here in the Ruin because I'm a realist. I allow the truth to be the truth, no matter how much I might want it to be something else.

There was a sliver of moon and a splash of stars, and the light outlined her face and glistened on the tears that ran like mercury down her cheeks.

Generosity could be as contagious as the zombie plague as long as enough people were willing to be carriers.

You have to keep your mind as wide-open as your eyes, because almost nothing is what it seems.

Rage was sometimes a useful ally in the heat of a fight, but it was a trickster. It made everything seem possible.

Everyone carries around his own monsters.---Richard Pryor

They won the war but lost the peace.

Things said and done innocently should never be used as weapons.

Memory chooses to preserve what desire cannot hope to sustain.

I shouldn't have spoken like that.''People do, sometimes. People who've had less to contend with than you. We're not always in full control of our actions.

A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

Lucy looked and saw that Aslan had just breathed on the feet of the stone giant. It's all right!" shouted Aslan joyously. "Once The feet are put right, all the rest of him will follow.

Success doesn't just happen. It starts for those who take action.

The word relationship best refers to the connection between parasite and host, or shark and remora. It's a biological term. I'd rather be a jerk than a scientist when it comes to love.

The First Amendment is not without limits.

We were language's magpies by nature, stealing whatever sounded bright and shiny.

I really love baseball. The guys and the game, and I love the challenge of describing things.

The Tao has no place for pettiness, and nor has Virtue. Pettiness is dangerous to Virtue; pettiness is dangerous to the Tao. It is said, rectify yourself and be done.