I want my chirfugging goose back!

Tea is the magic key to the vault where my brain is kept.

If wits were pins, the man would be a veritable hedgehog.

Oh, painted smirk of a hopeless dawn, the girl is still wearing her breeches.

Brand a man as a thief and no one will ever hire him for honest labor - he will be a hardened robber within weeks. The brand does not reveal a person's nature, it shapes it.

You’re a peach full of poison, you know that?" Mosca snapped back, but could not quite keep a hint of admiration from her tone.

I am anything I wish to be. The world cannot choose for me. No, it is for me to choose what the world shall be.

In Mosca’s experience, a ‘long story’ was always a short story someone did not want to tell.

The world is like a broken wrist that healed the wrong way, and will never be the same again.

Everybody knew that books were dangerous. Read the wrong book, it was said, and the words crawled around your brain on black legs and drove you mad, wicked mad.

Well, you will have to do. If you had died along with your mother, I would have taught the cat to read.

The sound of thunder, the smell of rain. The earth giving birth to another season. Nature's labor pains...beautiful.

All I hear is my own grating thoughts. Is there anything more horrid than being trapped inside yourself with nothing but your own insecurities.

Turns out, you can take the girl out of the spy school, but you can never take the spy school out of the girl.

The masters are men like us who have evolved ahead of us and come to the end of the evolution as a human being on planet earth.

Well, any effort to maximize your potential and ability is a good thing.

Creativity is the joy of not knowing it all.

To understand is to decipher. To hear significance is to translate.

When the road seems to be endlessly long, increase your speed!

You can say anything you want about how the brain works and people will believe you. Really, our brains are hard-wired like that.

You get used to the exact amount of space between lines. You write a word and then you write an alternate word over it. You want enough room so you can read it, so the lines can't be too close.