An equation is a prophecy that always comes true.

You look like a winter night", he had told her when he had given it to her. "I could sleep inside the cold of you".

We treat our stone wives with much more care than they treat their warm ones, anyway. I personally dust mine once a week, and I know Khaamil gives them presents when I am not looking. These are yours - they are in your care, and you must be faithful.

We like the wrong sorts of girls, they wrote. They are usually the ones worth writing about.

Love, I've never been anyone's mother; I don't know how to talk to young or old. But don't stop smiling just because I flap my mouth and say something that's not dressed around the edges like a lace tablecloth. Thicken up and we'll get along fine.

This is what comes of having a heart, even a very small and young one. It causes no end of trouble, and that’s the truth.

Just remember that the only question in a house is who is to rule. The rest is only dancing around that, trying not to look it in the eye.