You can lock a lion up in a room, if you want to, but you'll still hear it growling and clawing to get out.

Initially they waited with hope, but as each hour passed, hope slipped away like the wind, the wind that as a small boy Ethan had once tried to capture with his tiny fingers.

She chose the attractive room, not noticing the cloven hoof exposed beneath the ornate curtains. That decision has surely haunted her every day since, finally catching up to her.

The world to him no longer seemed a math equation but rather a complex piece of art, a masterpiece of things not easily understood.

That scream left her mouth and entered my head, where it's been ever since, sometimes waking me up at night.

I've left behind so many unfinished quilts in my life, beautiful pieces of dreams and intentions never fully assembled.

But forever was a useless term, relevant only for the dead.

Miss Green can call a turd a rose if she wants, but that don't mean people's going to be lining up to smell it.

People create all kind of fancy watches and clocks, never stopping to realize they're building monuments to the greatest of all thieves.

I'm accustomed to reading Georgian and Victorian letters and sometimes you simply know in your gut that a blithe sentence is covering up a deeper emotion.

Darkness crept through. Shadows pried at doors, teased dull edges of recollections that never quite took hold. Memories that would have shriveled under the blinding sun of daylight. And reason.

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But I couldn't absorb the idea that death could actually walk by my side, with a human face and a heart that was poisoned with hatred.

Dance with me, Death, I am ready.

I think every case is different. Every situation is different. People come on the F.B.I.'s radar screen for a variety of reasons at a variety of times.

disorder is the slowest worker in the universe.

When I play with my cat, who knows whether I do not make her more sport than she makes me?

Be humble, be big in mind and soul, be kindly; you will like yourself that way and so will other people

Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self. It is no humility for a man to think less of himself than he ought, though it might rather puzzle him to do that.