the touch of evil poisons by the idea of it. Reject the idea, and you've rejected the evil

I like to assume that since I drive a car and maintain a respectable credit rating and rarely murder anyone and bury them in the back garden unless they really deserve it, that the fact that I hear voices wont unduly disturb anyone.

One doesn't generally look into mirrors when one is especially angry; one has better things to do, like pace the floor or throw things.

She, too, spoke only when the queen or king addressed her first, but she looked searchingly at every supplicant, and her clear face said that she had opinions about everything she heard, and that it was her proud duty to think out those opinions, and make them responsible and coherent.

Roses are for love. Not silly sweet-hearts' love but the love that makes you and keeps you whole, love that gets you through the worst your life'll give you and that pours out of you when you're given the best instead.

If you wish, I shall go personally to your City and knock together the heads of Perlith and Galooney.

Laughter went on and on, like sunlight and stone, even if the human beings who laughed did not.