Little mouse," a voice said through the keyhole. "Don't you know the more you wriggle, the greater the cat's delight?

Mutually assured destruction.

Clever as the Devil and twice as pretty.

Every hero is the villain of his own story.

Ah coffee. The sweet balm by which we shall accomplish today's tasks.

You're like this leopard who's pretending to be a house cat.

Those who really love you don't mean to hurt you and if they do, you can't see it in their eyes but it hurts them too.

Jewels, lies, slips of paper, dried flowers, memories of thing long past, useless quotations, idle hands, beads, buttons, and mischief.

Put your puppet on the throne." said Talathain. "You may make her Queen but she won’t be Queen for long.

There’s nothing like a gunshot to make you the life of the party.

If curiosity killed the cat, it was satisfaction that brought it back.

In some company it’s perfectly all right to prick your finger, but very bad form to finger your prick.

I'd internalized an astonishing amount of misogyny growing up that I didn't even recognize until my early twenties.

I wondered what sort of woman loved a man like that.

It's amazing how much research has gone into making some of the worst decisions.

Schemes are like fruit, they require a certain ripening.

Once an angry man dragged his father along the ground through his own orchard. 'Stop!' cried the groaning old man at last, 'Stop! I did not drag my father beyond this tree.

The authorities in the United States confiscated private gold holdings in the Depression of the 1930's. They may seek to do so again in the Depression of the 1990's.

The structure of apartheid is still rooted in the Haitian society. When you have apartheid, you don't see those behind the walls. That is the reality of Haiti.

The white Christian heterosexual married male is the epitome of everything right with America!

We have a vow to give wholeheartedly everything to the poor.