Bacon improved things dramatically.

Location: Amsterdam, Where Fire Is Called "Vlam

I'm not good at love. I'm like a barbed creature. I push everyone I love away.

When a monster stopped behaving like a monster, did it stop being a monster? Did it become something else?

The only way for you to keep your mind straight is to run from those who would confuse you.

I don't want to love you if you're only going to die.

He considered her seriously. "Well. And that's easy," he said. "My Grace will protect me from him, And I'll protect you. You'll be safe with me, Katsa.

I'm not such a bad fighter myself," Skye said. Po exploded with laughter. "Oh, fight him, Katsa. Please fight him. I can't imagine a more entertaining diversion.

Your eyes are beautiful," he said, and she felt warm suddenly, warm in the sun that dappled through the treetops and rested on them in patches.

Wonderful," Garan grumbled when he'd gone. "We'll grow a reputation for our kindness to lawbreakers.

Every configuration of people is an entirely new universe unto itself.

My personal opinion is that if someone writes honestly about war, it will inherently be anti-war.

Words, without power, is mere philosophy.

The tiger will never lie down with the lamb; he acknowledges no pact that is not reciprocal. The lamb must learn to run with the tigers.

Women or mothers in middle age or mid career have valuable life experience and may offer an untapped recruitment pool.

You must always be open to your luck. You cannot force it, but you can recognize it.

Throughout all of human history slaves have been expensive capital purchase items. And today they're disposal inputs like styrofoam cups to an economic process.

Maybe this society, if anything, has become more patriarchal, and that has to be combated.

Sexualization is the performance of sexuality, the performance of sexiness. Girls are super good at that now.

We have a choice every day — to act on yesterday's good intentions or get an early start on tomorrow's regrets.

Health is so necessary to all the duties, as well as pleasures of life, that the crime of squandering it is equal to the folly.