Perhaps I can stay by the fire and mend your socks and scream if I hear any strange noises.

Ivan had contrived somehow in the dark of night to replace every watermelon in the watermelon patch with a gravestone, and every gravestone in the engraver's lot with a watermelon

It's not fair. It's not fair," she cried, knowing it was a child's argument but not caring, because being childish did not make it untrue.

Do you understand? I don't want you to do a thing if you don't understand it.

A man who fights you as he does is no better than an opportunist and no worse than a thug.

Love is stupid. It has nothing to do with reason. You love whomever you love.

I’m bored to death. Perhaps I should pillage one of my neighbors for my own amusement. It seems to work for Drowden.