It's the curse of motherhood. You're required to love us even when we vex you.

And if you say that's because you lot barged into her home like a herd of mentally deficient sheep, I'm disowning all three of you.

There were rules among friends, commandments, really, and the most important one was Thou Shalt Not Lust After Thy Friend's Sister.

Any man, you'll soon learn, has an insurmountable need to blame someone else when he is made to look a fool.

Simon gave her a startled look. 'I don't believe I have ever been condescended to by a woman before.' She shrugged. 'It was probably past time.

Did you know I have always suspected that men were idiots, " Daphne ground out, "but I was never positive until today.

what a sad pair we are, " she said. "Surely we can manage a conversation on a topic other than our respective terrible evenings.

Everyone dreams of greatness and expects it to happen in the future automatically.

I knew the answer, and--of course--so did Ramses. He has superb breath control and always gets in ahead of me.

I describe in a realistic form a nonrealistic Reality.

War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.

Materialism ends up denying the existence of any irreducible subjective qualitative states of sentience or awareness.

I cannot go to sleep without reading.

I don't ever take anything for granted.

As the moral gloom of the world overpowers all systematic gaiety, even so was their home of wild mirth made desolate amid the sad forest.

A wish is a desire without energy

It was almost as if I had a right to win. Thinking like that often seems to turn into sort of a self-fulfilling prophecy.