When you choose one way out of many, all the ways you don't take are snuffed out like candles, as if they'd never existed.

I stopped believing there was a power of good and a power of evil that were outside us. And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are.

I have stolen ideas from every book I have ever read.

People are too complicated to have simple labels.

We shouldn't live as if [other worlds] mattered more than this life in this world, because where we are is always the most important place.

Around them there was nothing but silence, as if all the world were holding its breath.

It might have been a new way for her heart to beat.

Tell them stories.

Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness.

Ignorance and virtue suck on the same straw...

Norah watched him, serious and utterly absorbed in his task, overcome by the simple fact of his existence.

Beguildy looked at me over the rim of a great measure of mead. 'Saddle your dreams afore you ride 'em, my wench, ' he said.

Speech belongs half to the speaker, half to the listener.

One is born into a herd of buffaloes and must be glad if one is not trampled under foot before one's time.

Some people stay away from the door for the chance of it opening up.

Being a nice girl from the Mid-West, my inclination is always to give in and say yes because I want people to like me.

He made his life a lie so he might never have to know anyone.

The only obligation I recognize is to say what I believe to be true [ ] and to say it with kindness. I believe that is how a Christian conversation should proceed.