This advice from a college freshman carrying a cane?""It's a walking stick, I'll have you know.""Same difference.""Hardly. It's fashion.

She'd just thrown gasoline on the fire. Now it was up to fandom to keep it burning.

So she's one of the grande dames of fandom? The Madame de Staël of the Starveil world?

Hormones, it seemed, we're making a much-delayed appearance in her life.Liv was horrified.

Dating' stressful. I'd have to dress up.

Reach outfor your dreamskeep your heartstrong and true, know thatthe dreamyou reach out for is also reaching outfor you

I was not ladylike, nor was I manly. I was something else altogether. There were so many different ways to be beautiful.

Everything that is truly of value–love, family, peace, health, and contentment—can never be bought.

Remember when we used to laugh at old people when we were young? Do you recall what was so funny?

We are more heavily invested in the theories of failure than we are in the theories of success.

The belly is the giver of genius.

Nearly every night before I go to bed I ask myself, "Have I vibrated in tune with the Infinite today, or have I failed?

I'll be active in politics through PACs at a later date.

At least tell me you won? And that the scratches and dings were totally worth it." "Of course. They're always worth it," he says with a hidden meaning that only the two of us could ever understand.

Insulting the electorate and accusing it of spiritual weakness and sinfulness are not the ways to get yourself the job of president.