When you find a man you wish to marry, Tessa, remember this: You will know what kind of man he is not by the things he says, but by the things he does.

Let me give you a piece of advice. The handsome young fellow who's trying to rescue you from a hideous fate is never wrong. Not even if he says the sky is purple and made of hedgehogs.

Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.

Your angel cannot protect you against that which neither god nor the devil had made

Will looked horrified. "What kind of monster could possibly hate chocolate?

It is as great a thing to love as it is to be loved. Love is not something that can be wasted.

It isn't against the Law to be an idiot.

Demon pox. There's always demon pox.

He banged on the side of the carriage. "Thomas! We must away at once to the nearest brothel. I seek scandal and low companionship.

While the Clave disapproves of trespassers, oddly they take an even darker view of beheading and skinning people. They're peculiar that way.

With God on your side, what does luck matter?

The slow dance of synchronicity begins the moment you are born.

States are as the men are they grow out of human characters.

To me, there is no greater act of courage than being the one who kisses first.

I don't think of myself as an evil monster and I hope I'm not.

When you dream, your perceptual (and other) competence is affected. You are then unable to get it right competently with the beliefs in your dream.

He who doesn't lose his wits over certain things has no wits to lose.

Let's build a battery plant here.

The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money.

The real compensation of a right action is inherent in having performed it.

Nature will take precedence over the needs of the modern man.