You carried my heart in your hands tonight," he said. "But I have felt as if you carried it long before that.

Mutually assured destruction.

Clever as the Devil and twice as pretty.

Every hero is the villain of his own story.

Ah coffee. The sweet balm by which we shall accomplish today's tasks.

You're like this leopard who's pretending to be a house cat.

Those who really love you don't mean to hurt you and if they do, you can't see it in their eyes but it hurts them too.

Jewels, lies, slips of paper, dried flowers, memories of thing long past, useless quotations, idle hands, beads, buttons, and mischief.

Put your puppet on the throne." said Talathain. "You may make her Queen but she won’t be Queen for long.

There’s nothing like a gunshot to make you the life of the party.

If curiosity killed the cat, it was satisfaction that brought it back.

Number of empty Ben & Jerry's containers: 3 -- two mint chocolate cookie, one plain vanilla. (Who buys plain vanilla ice cream from Ben & Jerry's, anyway? Is there a greater waste?)

I call my it "the Book of Paula" or BoP for short. Those are my own opinions, based on experience.

Remember, I might be the wind, but you control the kite.

And, that's what I truly believe that we're doing when we're advancing scientific knowledge is we're someday making the world better. Not only for our children, but for all people after that.

Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.

Homosexuality is the handiwork of Satan.

Putting forth the effort to succeed is (tan.ta.mount), tantamount to your success.

Time seemed to suspend itself, or cease altogether. Place faded away. There was only her self, the centre that endured through all times, all events, from the world, from its pain. Timeless, eternal.

I don't remember being a child, and that's why I think I'm so child-like now in my unending curiosity and approach to life.

I was an only child, eventually.