Fire isn't always an element of destruction. Classical alchemical doctrine teaches that it also has dominion over another province: change.

Sleep is God. Go worship.

Heroism doesn't pay very well. I try to be cold-blooded and money-oriented, but I keep screwing it up.

Tavi looked wildly around the courtyard, and when his gaze flicked toward them, his face lit witha ferocious smile. "Uncle Bernard! Uncle Bernard!" he shouted, pointing at Doroga. "He followed me home! Can we keep him?

If you make some comment even obliquely alluding to menstruation or menopause and its effect on my judgment," Murphy interrupted, "I will break your arm in eleven places.

Keep it up, wise guy. I'm always going to be taller than you once you're lying unconscious on the ground.

Life is easier when you can write off others as monsters, demon, as horrible threats that must be hated and feared the thing is you can't do that without becoming them, just a little.