He was rather clumsy and shy and looked as if he'd spent the last ten years of his life locked up in a library - hardly the kind of man any girl your age dreams of ...

Whoever said that childhood is the happiest time of your life is a liar, or a fool.

If there is a god, or hundreds of them, I hope they will forgive me for the harm I may have inflicted on you by telling you exactly what happened.

Aryami Bose's home had been closed up for years, inhabited only by books and paintings, but the spectre of thousands of memories imprisoned between its walls still permeated the house.

I would have preferred someone else to have been in charge of rescuing this story, but once again life has taught me that my role is to be a witness, not the leading actor.

As he took them in his arms, the crying of the babies permeated the night like a trail of blood calling out to a predator.

Armed I am with love. Disarmed I am.

Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership.

Man naturally desires, not only to be loved, but to be lovely; or to be that thing which is the natural and proper object of love.

Anyone who believes that we can afford collectively what we cannot afford individually is delusional.

My theory about comedians is that their greatest fear is other people laughing at them. So comedy is an attempt to control and manipulate the thing they find most frightening.

I'm a child of the woods. I have that sort of sensibility.

Homeland of patience, land of the Russian people.

Were he supreme, were he mighty, were he just, were he good, this God you tell me about, would it be through enigmas and buffooneries he would wish to teach me to serve and know him?

Loneliness is random; solitude is ritual.

Those two are carved from the same tree." the queen said. By the same blade." The high king answered and offered her his arm in splendid dignity