Cut him. Cut him while I stand here and watch. I want to see the blood flow. Don't make me tell you twice.

Because things like this you can only ssay once. And you either get it wrong or right, it's the end either way, because it's too hard to ever try to say again.

Pain is the biggest power of love.

The world had moved on and all that was over, done before fairly begun.

Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.

...stupidity is one of the two things we see most clearly in retrospect. The other is missed chances.

I hope you liked them, Reader; that they did for you what any good story should do--make you forget the real stuff weighing on your mind for a little while and take you away to a place you've never been. It's the most amiable sort of magic I know.