The crow flew closer, as if to hear its praises.

For all the books in his possession, he still failed to read the stories written plain as day in the faces of the people around him.

In the yard of the inn, Daffy Cadwaladyr introduced himself. "Short for Davyd, " he said pleasantly.The Londoner looked as if she'd never heard a sillier name in her life.

Sometimes words were like glass that broke in her mouth.

I may have had moments of regret in my life, but you know, they wouldn't add up to an hour.

That's what you got for being a servant of no ambition: a shrunken life, hung up like a gibbet as a warning to others.

And tonight Mary could taste bitterness going down like a nut, settling in her stomach. It planted itself, put down roots, and began to grow, nourished on her dark blood.

Every woman was once a little girl with big dreams. Believe in yourself and never quit dreaming!

Normal Iraqi etiquette was forgotten the moment drivers sat behind the wheel.

The Lego Movie: Merely a great film, or the greatest film ever in the history of cinema?

Kiss is not a charity. Never, ever mix commerce and charity.

Fiction is experimentation; when it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction.

Life, the raw material, is only lived in potentia until the artist deploys it in his work.

If you allow yourself to fully feel the life you're in - not conceptually, but viscerally in the present moment - then that is inherently meaningful.

Diets are a temporary solution to a permanent problem.

Believe it or not, I have about the same success rate as anyone else. Sometimes you hit, sometimes you miss.

In order to live a rich life, everything about who you are must be one, in alignment, and in pure harmony.