Where, indeed? Captain Vincent Reed had been born in the city of Richmond, Virginia, of northern parents who were stationed there by the telegraph company. He had attended West Point and he thought he...

Will ye be wantin’ this now, madam?Yes, please, she whispered. She wanted to engrave the sight of him thus, about to make love to her, in her mind.

Yeah, all right, but everyone knows they torture people, mumbled Sam.Do they? said Vimes. Then why doesn't anyone do anything about it?'cos they torture people.

You ask too many questions, snapped Cletus.I kept my gaze on Roman. that's because I get too few answers.

¡Y cuando exhales el último suspiro, sólo entonces, te darás cuenta de que tu vida no ha sido más que una minúscula gota en un océano infinito!Y sin embargo, ¿qué es un océano sino una multitud de got...

You're making this really hard for me, he said quietly, holding my face in his hands.So maybe you should give in.I don't want you to think that's all I want from you.What else do you want from me?Ever...

Your church is a baby-house made of blocks.

Your cousin might be a pretty face, but , my darling, courageous, maddening, seductive, mysterious, Diana, are the Duchess of Wakefield. duchess.

Your on the planet too. Why should James Bond have all the action, fun, money, and resort hotel living.

Your past is just a story. And once you realise this, it has no power over you.

[Adam picks up the camera] I have to get a shot of this.The reaction in the room was swift, and unanimous: every single person except me raised their hands at once to cover their faces. The accompanyi...

[whiteness] has no real meaning divorced from the machinery of criminal power. The new people were something else before they were white—Catholic, Corsican, Welsh, Mennonite, Jewish—and if all our nat...

But as he plodded along a vague and almost hallucinatory pall hazed over his mind; he found himself at one point, with no notion of how it could be, a step from an almost certain fatal cliffside fall—...

Over and over, we hear politicians say they can't spend our tax dollars on environmental protection when the economy is so fragile.

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.

You use your money to buy privacy because during most of your life you aren't allowed to be normal.

Love is a hole in the heart.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries - for heavy ones they cannot.