That's the trouble with grand passions, of course. You can never entirely cleanse yourself of them. It's best to avoid them altogether.

It's delicious to have people adore you, but it's exhausting, too. Particularly when your own feelings don't match theirs.

You've faced horrors in these past weeks... I don't know which is worse. The terror you feel the first time you witness such things, or the numbness that comes after it starts to become ordinary.

You do know, I hope, that no man under the age of forty can even approach fascinating.

Now Darkstripe, ' Graypaw hissed to Firepaw under his breath, 'is neither young, nor pretty.

I play chicken with the train

I believe in romance... in playfulness... in passion... in expressing feelings... in friendship... in all the ways love heals, nourishes, and transforms "you" and "me" into an "us".

Prometheus is reaching out for the stars with an empty grin on his face.

He made me love him without looking at me.

Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.

If you can't get excited about living life, then what are you doing?

You can't look back; you have to keep looking forward.

Black women are very capable of leading our organizations. I believe that firmly.

It is necessary for the mind to become free of the illusions of this world and become a fine and marvelous instrument of the Inner Being.