Hey, don't take this the wrong way, but don't come back, ok?

When you open a book it's like going to the theater first you see the curtain then it is pulled aside and the show begins.

Women were different, no doubt about it. Men broke so much more quickly. Grief didn't break women. Instead it wore them down, it hollowed them out very slowly.

Killing is easy," said Mo, "Dying is harder.

You know a great many things in dreams, often despite the evidence of your eyes. You just know them.

She always did like tales of adventure-stories full of brightness and darkness. She could tell you the names of all King Arthur's knights, and she knew everything about Beowulf and Grendel, the ancient gods and the not-quite-so-ancient heroes. She liked pirate stories, too, but most of all she loved books that had at least a knight or a dragon or a fairy in them. She was always on the dragon's side by the way.

There could be few men whose love for a woman had been written on his face with a knife.