There are times when the world is rearranging itself, and at times like that, the right words can change the world.

Maybe she couldn't know who she was today. Maybe it was enough to know that she was no longer who she was before.

[T]he politically correct are above the rules of ordinary civility, once they have identified you as an unbeliever in their religion.

At last he came to a door, with these words in glowing emeralds: THE END OF THE WORLD He did not hesitate. He opened the door and stepped through.

I looked for perfection, and I found something better.

Never mind that the story had turned out to be lies and foolishness—there was always folks stupid enough to say, Where there's smoke there's fire, when the saying should have been, Where there's scandalous lies there's always malicious believers and spreaders-around, regardless of evidence.

'I could kill you like this,' Peter whispered. 'Just press and press until you're dead'.