people notice the most beautiful dress every person can wear, ......... a "smile

If we don't risk it all, we may as well not write at all.

She had the underwear of a thirteen-year-old, as well, he thought. He glanced back at her. But the shoes of a courtesan.

She froze. He reached up and took her hand in his, pulling the knife away, making her drop it on the floor. "Show me how much you hate me," he whispered against her mouth. "Prove it to me.

I lied. I do that, you know, when it suits me. I would have thought you'd realized that by now.

After all, if spinster chaperons required their own spinster chaperons there simply wouldn't be enough to go around.

If I am ever in the position where I wish to seduce someone I will simply assure her it’s better than rats.

The best thing to do if you start thinking such things (falling in love) is to lie down and wait for it to pass. It always does.

You tell anyone that I cried, and I'll cut your liver out." "Do you even know where a human liver resides?"[...] "Yes," she said, and punched him in it.

She tried to allow herself only one biting remark an hour, and she had already overstepped her allowance.

If you lust after someone and have an absurd and overwhelming need to protect them, then the best way to deal with the situation is to marry the person.

People quickly forget evil because they still haven't created a language to describe it so the world refuses to carry the burden, preferring to forget.

I do not fear failure. I only fear the "slowing up" of the engine inside of me which is pounding, saying, "Keep going, someone must be on top, why not you?

Perhaps everything terrible is, in its deepest being, something that needs our love.

Life should be dealt with in small bites, large gulps will choke you.

The English play hockey in any weather. Thunder, lightening, plague of locusts...nothing can stop the hockey. Do not fight the hockey, for the hockey will win.

Instead of trying to make your life perfect, give yourself the freedom to make it an adventure, and go ever upward.

Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity.

I have seen that every one forgives much in themselves that they find unpardonable in other people.

Actually, I have an interest in finishing my Ph.D., but I just know I never will.

I believe that a sportsman should be aggressive because that is what gives him or her the power to perform even in the toughest of situations.