He did a very good impression of a stone column.

The snow was too light to stay, the ground too warm to keep it. And the strange spring snow fell only in that golden moment of dawn, the turning of the page between night and day.

Her smile was peculiar - it made her nose wrinkle, not as though she smelled something unpleasant, but more that she was so amused, her whole face wanted to be a part of the smile.

Life is short, so live extra lives. Read books.

Just like the old adage--what you dislike most in other people is what you dislike the most in yourself--

My ma says You can't unspill a stew." "She also says Undoing a wrong is greater than doing a right." "You know, Ma is very good at saying two things at once.

Go on, son, you're not doing me any good by bleeding.