The groom always smiles proudly because he's convinced he's accomplished something quite wonderful. The bride smiles because she's been able to convince him of it.

How foolish to yearn to ask the very person who'd caused the pain to heal it

It was a kingdom of dreams — a place where things would be just the way I wanted them to be.

After all, it's not every day a woman is given a kingdom of dreams.

Jennifer Merrick had stored all her tears inside her, and her pride and courage would never permit her to break down and shed them.

But he knew instinctively what he suggested was impossible. She'd been through so much, and held her tears back for so long, that Royce doubted that anything could force her to shed them.

An answering smile drifted across his tanned face. "What is mine, I intend tokeep.

For some reason all the middle-aged women he knew were very efficient.

Words only make sense when the person who says them means a lot.

Your muse ain't singin' on your MTV? Can't even see him on your HD TV?

There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.

The Israelis want security. The Arabs want dignity. And they consider the demands of each other as incompatible.

I have no specific ideas in mind of what I will or won't do; it's all about the roles.

I've always thought fairies are like mushrooms, you trip over them when you're not thinking about them, but they're hard to spot when you're searching for them.

We all love to hear a good story. We save our stories in books. We save our books in libraries. Libraries are the storyhouses full of all those stories and secrets.

If you can pick up a ground ball you'll play for any team you want.

When the restrictions you have do not limit you, this is what we mean by practice.