just because you have stopped believing in something you once were promised does not mean that the promise itself was a lie.

The essence of honor lay in the moment of combat between equals.

More often than not, it was the hand of the needy and uncertain that extended the olive branch. History had shown the truth of that over and over again.

Our prisons are full of people who think they're Napoleon..or God.

And, it's funny how when somebody saves you, the first thing you want to do is save other people. All other people. Everyone.

Every place is the same place in the dark.

The same as most prayers, the bulk of what you hear is complaints and demands. Help me. Hear me. Lead me. Forgive me.

Petra turned to her. Everybody lies about who they are. Name one person here who isn't doing that and I will drop out right now! Shanti felt that snake of truth coil around her legs, threatening to...

"The real shit {that was Mo’s mantra} is pigeons, not their shit. Divorce is when you take away what you no longer need from those you no longer love."

So why'd you part ways with this Dickie Orr person?" Lula asked. "He's a jerk." "Good enough for me," she said. "I hate him already."

I find people confusing.

A fire is never sated by any amount of logs, nor the ocean by rivers that flow into it; death cannot be sated by all the creatures in the world, nor a fair-eyed woman by any amount of men. THE KAMA...

All war is fratricide, and there is therefore an infinite chain of blame that winds its circuitous route back and forth across the path and under the feet of every people and every nation, so that a...

Think your little jokes'll help you on your deathbed? she jeered. Jokes? No, no, these are manners, replied Dumbledore.

You cannot find someone who does not want to be found.

I cannot help thinking that there is something to admire in every one, even if you do not approve of them.

No, he is not tactful, yet have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet, at the same time, beautiful?

It's so easy that when you begin you can't stop. You just go on and on doing it always.

It was more amusing when I wasn't supposed to do it... Like everything else in life

There is a force of persuasion in the scent, stronger than that of words, glances, feelings, and will. It cannot be rejected, it penetrates our lungs like the air we breathe, it overflows within us,...

Perhaps thee will best understand what Abigail is like if I tell thee that when she quilts she prefers to stitch in the ditch, hiding her poor stitches in the seams between the blocks.

Handle with care - everything - even the predators.

How quickly compassion invades noble hearts!

Well it is said that neither love nor power Admit a rival, even for an hour.

Geoffrey Chaucer's tender-hearted prioress, Madame Eglantyne, who was said to weep at the sight of a mouse caught in a trap, would nevertheless have had a gallows on her property, upon which, at the...

"... I hid myself between two leaves of sorrel, and there discharged the necessities of nature."

Odd things happen in a battle, and the human heart has strange and gruesome depths and the human brain still stranger shallows;

And now leave me in peace for a bit! I don't want to answer a string of questions while I am eating. I want to think!

Rob McKenna was a miserable bastard and he knew it because he'd had a lot of people point it out to him over the years and he saw no reason to disagree with them except the obvious one which was that...

He sniggered. He didn't like to think of himself as the sort of person who giggled or sniggered, but he had to admit that he had been giggling and sniggering almost continuously for well over half an...