The worst moment of one's life could be seared into the memory, brighter than any joy.

Stars got tangled in her hair whenever she played in the sky.

Light coursed through Karou and darkness chased it-burning through her, chilling her, shimmer and shadow, ice and fire, blood and starlight, rushing, roaring, filling her.

She moved like a poem and smiled like a sphinx.

Once upon a time, an angel and a devil fell in love. It did not end well.

Like a magpie, I am a scavenger of shiny things: fairy tales, dead languages, weird folk beliefs, fascinating religions, and more.

A man once said, 'All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.' Mark Twain, you know. He had a fine mustache. Men of wisdom so often do.

Hope can be a powerful force. Maybe there's no actual magic in it, but when you know what you hope for most and hold it like a light within you, you can make things happen, almost like magic.

She knocked and waited, because when the door was opened from within, it had the potential to lead someplace quite different.

Where am I and doing what? You might well ask. Freaky chick, you say? You can't imagine. I am priestess of a sandcastle in a land of dust and starlight.

I am one of billions. I am stardust gathered fleetingly into form. I will be ungathered. The stardust will go on to be other things someday and I will be free.

Adventure begins with a thought, decision and action.

There are aspects of being the first woman in space that I'm not going to enjoy.

Thus not only the mental and the material, but the theoretical and the practical in the mathematical world, are brought into more intimate and effective connection with each other.

Why play a chord when you can play one note?

The discontented man finds no easy chair.

Beauty and seriousness are perhaps the most shocking tactics left to artists these days.

Struggles only move forward when decent men and women step forward and say, 'enough is enough and no more.'

Our revolution's main mission is to pave the way for the reappearance of the Twelfth Imam, the Mahdi.

Use the hills to get stronger!

I've had the pleasure to work with a lot of very great actors. And they're too different to say who's the best.