Life is full of grief, to exactly the degree we allow ourselves to love other people.

I want to be the kind of boy you are, thought Bean. But I don’t want to go through what you’ve been through to get there.

If anyone have intercourse with a pig or a dog, he shall die. If a man have intercourse with a horse or a mule, there is no punishment. But he shall not approach the king, and shall not become a priest... If a pig spring upon a man for intercourse, there is no punishment.

Dona Crista laughed a bit. "Oh, Pip, I'd be glad for you to try. But do believe me, my dear friend, touching her heart is like bathing in ice." I imagine. I imagine it feels like bathing in ice to the person touching her. But how does it feel to her? Cold as she is, it must surely burn like fire.

Every person is defined by the communities she belongs to.

In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.

Rumors are the sauce of a dry life.