Time became more important the closer to death one was, so an extra few hours to make peace with the world were worth more than years.

She wanted to hold foreign syllables like mints on her tongue until they dissolved into fluency.

We wear clothes, and speak, and create civilizations, and believe we are more than wolves. But inside us there is a word we cannot pronounce and that is who we are.

She wouldn't climb out of the bed for her sister, but she had climbed into a crater. She wouldn't cross a room, but she had crossed a continent.

Nothing, she now knew, could be defined in exclusion, and every bug, pencil, and grass blade was a dictionary in itself, requiring the definitions of all things to fulfill its own.

Then Brezhnev grabbed the wheel of power and captained the country with the exploratory heart of a municipal bus driver.

No one can take what's inside your head once it's there.

You will have the last word.' 'Your name will be that word.

She felt as buoyantly patriotic as her Chechen classmates who could trace their family trees back to the acorns

Her mother stared in quiet awe of this more artful rearrangement of her genetic code, and slipped into a contentedness that usually appeared only after the red wine had fallen below the bottle label.

But inside us there is a word we cannot pronounce and that is who we are.

You'll have to outfly the west wind to catch me.

Anytime you feel love for anything, be it stone, tree, lover, or child, you are touched by the Goddess's magick...

If matters go badly now they will not always be so.

Anything you build on a large scale or with intense passion invites chaos.

New technologies such as solar systems or hybrid cars aren't created overnight. By extending these tax credits we are giving this industry time to grow, branch out and succeed.

Do you think a woman can give a man everything while still withholding her heart? We are not made that way! - Fiona

Even the longest journey must begin where you stand.

[Buckminster Fuller] could do four, five hours straight where some people would leave, eat, get a snooze and come back and he's still going. He was like a fireplug.

It's pretty simple - The Action you take will determine the results you Achieve.

What I did have was an incredible amount of belief in myself.