I didn't ask you to catch me!" "You're so delightful when you're irrational. Of course I'm going to catch you." He slid a hand behind her nape and kissed her again. "It's what I do.

I want. . . a steady hand. A kind soul. I want to fall asleep, and wake, knowing my heart is safe. I want to love, and be loved.

She was spirit and presence, as rare and brilliant as snowflakes in sunlight, and he could not bring himself to harm her.

I want to love, and be loved.

All that effort,” he mused, “merely to avoid me. How gratifying.

We pretended to be of mud instead of stars. We pretended not to fly.

She did what she could for him. She kissed him in return. She lost her breath and both her hearts, and finally Turned to smoke and back.

I wonder sometimes what would happen if victory was imagined not just as the elimination of evil but the establishment of good...

What is divine? It is simply that which man has not been able to understand. Once you do, it loses its divinity.

Always wear high heels. Yes, they give you power. you move differently, sit differently and even speak differently.

At the best, sarcasms, bitter irony, scathing wit, are a sort of swordplay of the mind. You pink your adversary, and he is forthwith dead; and then you deserve to be hung for it.

The pre-human creature from which man evolved was unlike any other living thing in its malicious viciousness toward its own kind. Humanization was not a leap forward but a groping toward survival.

I'm in no way suggesting that I succeed, but it's inspiring to read somebody who does succeed and from whom, in a general way, you can draw examples and nourishment and sustenance.

I have always been quite good at falling in love, but I don't pretend to know anything about literal happily ever afters.

A skilled worker, regardless of the job description, remains a treasure.

A wasteful defense is a weak defense.

Rest easy and go with the faith you lived with