It was the sort of bone deep emotion that made him want to hold her tighter with one hand, and draw a sword against the world with the other.

As if Spade's chivalry would allow him to do anything to a woman. The harshest punishment she could imagine him dishing out to Cat would be refusing to open a door for her.

Nathanial can show me how to better control the change, but even so, you never have to worry about me turning into a cat again. Didn't you know, I'm allergic to cats.

I don't lack for bed partners, so I don't need to scrounge for unwilling scraps.-Spade

Before you go, mate, turn on the telly. Something raunchy too. Think I'll rub off one before I go to sleep

There will be haters, there will be doubters, there will be non-believers, and then there will be you proving them wrong.

Father, I know you will hear me, I will speak.

I did it to myself. It wasn't society... it wasn't a pusher, it wasn't being blind or being black or being poor. It was all my doing.

Every successful person I have heard of has done the best he could with the conditions as he found them, and not waited until next year for better.

To appreciate art you’ve got to work at it a bit.

That man, the king of vacations... the king of vacations in his ranch said nothing but, you have to flee, and didn't say how... that cowboy, the cowboy mentality.

We grow in direct proportion to the amount of chaos we can sustain and dissipate

I don't really get excited about good things happening to me.

Do not tell me what to do and do not tell me what I can't do.

I always knew that God's way was the best, that I wanted to wait, and that I valued purity.