Lydia: Strange how you always remember the pain someone gave you, but seldom the hurt you caused them.

Listen, I don't want things to get weird, okay.Oh, yeah, no, weird is bad.But just so you and I are clear, I really fucking want to kiss you right now.

Lilies, I rule, heads, you do, he [the King] said, and threw the coin into the air.Lilies, you rule, heads, you throw again, said Attolia.The coin dropped. Eugenides looked at it and then showed it to...

Laughter is poison to fear.

It was unreal, grotesquely unreal, that morning skies which dawned so tenderly blue could be profaned with cannon smoke that hung over the town like low thunder clouds, that warm noontides filled with...

It is such a supreme folly to believe that nuclear weapons are deadly only if they're used. The fact that they exist at all, their presence in our lives, will wreak more havoc than we can begin to fat...

Iris, came a low, smoky snarl from the doorway. Come here.She felt Hugh's arms tighten around her as she glanced over her shoulder.Raphael stood on the threshold, Ubertino, Bardo, and Ivo behind him....

If she’d been born at the right time they would have burned her over in Salem.

If he had known unstructured space is a delugeand stocked his log house-boat with all the animals even the wolves, he might have floated. But obstinate hestated, The land is solid and stamped, watchin...

I picture the vast realm of the sciences as an immense landscape scattered with patches of dark and light. The goal towards which we must work is either to extend the boundaries of the patches of ligh...

I love you so much, so incredibly much, he went on, and I forget when you're close to me, I forget who you are. I forget that you're Jem's. I'd have to be the worst sort of person to think what I'm th...

I have no trouble with my enemies, Miss Vivar. I can take care of my enemies in a fight. But my so-called allies, my damned allies, they're the ones who keep me walking the floors at night.- Warmaster...

I felt lethal, on the verge of frenzy. My nightly bloodlust overflowed into my days and I had to leave the city. My mask of sanity was a victim of impending slippage. This was the bone season for me a...

He wondered at times whether he didn’t belong to a class of people secretly convinced they had an arrangement with fate; in return for docility or ingenuous good will they were to be shielded from the...

He is able to put aside personal feelings and see the broad strokes. Experience counts in these things.

Graff had isolated Ender to make him struggle. To make him prove, not that he was competent, but that he was far better than everyone else. That was the only way he could win respect and friendship. I...

Giving these lil’ fellas a gun was important to keep the name of the Rebellions strong, because whenever the name drops, it’s only a matter of time before someone kicks your door in. Scrooge, former l...

Estragon: I remember the maps of the Holy Land. Coloured they were. Very pretty. The Dead Sea was pale blue. The very look of it made me thirsty. That's where we'll go, I used to say, that's where we'...

Do you speak Gaelic Noah? she suddenly asked.His heart clenched. It actually hurt, as though spikes of steel had been dug into it.should I?Maybe not...

Do you remember that I said I have something to show you?Back when they were entering the house. Before she'd seen Hugh. Before their argument. Yes?He pushed open the door to her bedroom. Look.She wen...