Whoever designed this city built it to complement the setting sun as perfectly as the stars complement the night.

No one should be forced to be something they aren't.

It's a weapon we have, and we need all the weapons we can get

If stubborness were all that was needed to be a good queen, I'd rule the world.

You've fought for Winter so spectacularly, and I am more proud than I have ever been to call you my son. But don't forget to fight for yourself as well--there is no shame in that

Anything that lives here has to be just as harsh and determined as the sun, born of a fiery stubbornness that is either extremely brave or extremely stupid.

I stared up at the sky and raised my middle finger, just in case God was watching. I don't like being spied on.

I recognized exactly where she was—that state where you’re able to hold it together as long as absolutely no one talks to you or touches you with any amount of sympathy.

Every article I wrote in those days, every speech I made, is full of pleading for the recognition of lead poisoning as a real and serious medical problem.

If something is irrational, that means it won't work. It's usually unrealistic.

One of the many dreadful aspects of the Kennedy 'legacy' is the now-unbreakable grip of celebrity politics, image-doctoring, stage management, and "torch-passing" rhetoric in general.

Poetry is my politics. It's an opportunity that gives me a way to speak.

The teachers of our law, and to propose What might improve my knowledge or their own.

I don't know how you get dressed if you live in Wales, because it's pouring rain and then it's hot sunshine, and then it might hail. It's just so confusing.

There is nothing the wise man does reluctantly.