When she absently worried her bottom lip with one of her adorable little fangs, he s

Too bad, Elizabeth. You're Stuck with me.Not for a few decades, not for centuries. You're tied to me forever. That boy and girl offspring you talked off? They'll come from me--or no one.

Lothaire is very much alive.”“You swear?”“Often. Though not as much as foul-mouthed Regin. I try not to in front of Bertil.” She petted the bat.“I meant—will Lothaire live?”“He will.

He sat up, going still. “Am I wearing a wife-beater, Lizvetta?” He gaped down. “Oh, come on!”Lothaire

Tell me, Lothaire, I want to know. Convince me why I should love you.”“Because any other female would!

Why am I letting you comfort me?” He stared over her head. Because I’ve made sure you have no one else to turn to.

In other words, he was the tree in the forest that silently fell--when no one was around to be crushed.

Montana seems to me to be what a small boy would think Texas is like from hearing Texans

Authentic faith cannot help but act.

People say, 'Oh, you don't like China?' No, I love them. But their leaders are much smarter than our leaders, and we can't sustain ourself with that.

No one can teach that which is inside another, each person must find it on his own and find a way to express it.

The European boys have small ideas but they sure know how to dress 'em up.

Shall Nature, erring from her first command, self-preservation, fall by her own hand?

It'll always be easier to fight others if you reduce them to a single word or look at them just one way.

If he wants meaning-the meaning of his dreams, his secrets, his life-a man must reinhabit his past, however dark, and live for the future, however uncertain.

What can a sales person say to somebody to get them to buy a product that they already use every day if they don't like it? Nothing.

It is remarkable, in cats, that the outer life they reveal to their masters is one of perpetual boredom.