If you lust after someone and have an absurd and overwhelming need to protect them, then the best way to deal with the situation is to marry the person.

If we don't risk it all, we may as well not write at all.

She had the underwear of a thirteen-year-old, as well, he thought. He glanced back at her. But the shoes of a courtesan.

She froze. He reached up and took her hand in his, pulling the knife away, making her drop it on the floor. "Show me how much you hate me," he whispered against her mouth. "Prove it to me.

I lied. I do that, you know, when it suits me. I would have thought you'd realized that by now.

After all, if spinster chaperons required their own spinster chaperons there simply wouldn't be enough to go around.

If I am ever in the position where I wish to seduce someone I will simply assure her it’s better than rats.

The best thing to do if you start thinking such things (falling in love) is to lie down and wait for it to pass. It always does.

You tell anyone that I cried, and I'll cut your liver out." "Do you even know where a human liver resides?"[...] "Yes," she said, and punched him in it.

She tried to allow herself only one biting remark an hour, and she had already overstepped her allowance.

Jesus, woman!" he snapped. "When did we have to become Romeo and Juliet?

Life is a magnificent sacred journey of the soul.

Staying in an unhealthy relationship can keep a person from finding their own way and moving to the next level of their own path — and that person could even be you.

To accomplish our destiny ... we must cover before nightfall the distance assigned to each of us.

Pink Floyd is like a marriage that's on a permanent trial separation.

Anyone who puts 110% into their work deserves as much success as they can get.

If you try to make the Democrats be what they are not, and never will be, you will end up being more like what the Democrats actually are.

From the beginning, I imagined I would have a long work life.

The war on meth must be fought with a multi-pronged approach.

My father's death took me to a place I had never been and a place I had never left. In his absence, I've had to rely more on myself.

But men are men; the best sometimes forget.