I was a quiet teenager, introverted, full of angst.

I think Captain Cousteau might be the father of the environmental movement.

Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should arise for them to bark violently at nothing right in your ear.

Your fussy nursemaid of a wyvern is fine, by the way. I don't know how you wound up with a sweet thing like that for a mount, but he's content to sprawl in the sun on the foredeck. Can't say it makes...

You said you were allowed to lose it,' some part of her reminded herself. 'Not yet, not yet.

You need a name. I heard some interesting ones today;perhaps you'll like one. He mentally ran through the list Brom had given him until he found tow names that stuck him as heroic, noble and pleasing...

Well… don’t be offended, but you smell like a dog.

The enduring rapture with magic and fable has always struck me as latently childish and somehow sexless (and thus also related to childlessness).

Since childhood, I’d believed it was important to speak out against bullies while also not stooping to their level. And to be clear, we were now up against a bully, a man who among other things demean...

On Lee as commander: He had a cheerful dignity and could praise them (his men) without seeming to court their favor.

La vengeance se mange très-bien froide. (Original version of: Revenge is a dish best served cold. Often misattributed to Mario Puzo.)

I love you, Emily. You'll always be my best friend. You'll always be my...Molly. You're the mother of my child. You and Noah have brought color to my empty canvas, light into my darkened life. Let's p...

I like that you’re jealous.Rogan, put the car back.Come to dinner with me tonight and I’ll consider it.

I knew, as sure as I knew my name, that tomorrow he would send me another coat, in a big fancy box, with a big bow on it. It would be the right size, it would be a top brand, and it would be warm........

Every cuisine has its characteristic 'flavor principle,' Rozin contends, whether it is tomato-lemon-oregano in Greece; lime-chili in Mexico; onion-lard-paprika in Hungary, or, in Samin's Moroccan dish...

Die Dorkamese Twins.

And again Harry understood without having to think. It did not matter about bringing them back, for he was about to join them. He was not really fetching them: They were fetching him.

Living with anyone for many years takes skill. To keep peace in the household, couples learn to adapt to one another, hopefully in positive ways.

I definitely was attracted to similar things in punk and science. They both depend on a healthy dose of skepticism.

I don't think that you know who we are, but we know who you are!