If I'm damned, what's the point of pretending that I'm not?

Rachelle choked on a laugh. “You were always stronger.”“You, ” said Amélie, “were always foolish enough to think that mattered.

I'd rather worship bloody bones than the murderer who makes them.

The same wolfish greed beats in your heart: to have what you will, and kill for it.

He stared at her a moment longer, then laughed softly. “I wouldn’t love you if you were any weaker, ” he said, and let go of her.

The future success of a nation depends on how diligently and purposefully they educate their children.

Who knows what real really is...

Loving isn't about selecting only the good parts. It's about taking the whole and loving the lot.

I am not saying that I'm happy about what's going on right now in our nation, but I am at peace and I am comforted because I know that He's on the throne. That is good enough for me.

Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you.

Every person is a possibility. The hopeless romantics feel it most acutely, but even for others, the only way to keep going is to see every person as a possibility.

And all was black and still, and black and cold, and black and dead, and black.

A woman of 40 or 50 or 60 can take estrogen replacements, get facelifts, spend her money in bars.

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.

I would not be the mere President of a Party. I feel bound to administer the government untrammeled by party schemes.