Boundary wardens, Zedd thought, were tougher than they had a right to be.

Once you place that crown of liar on your head, you can take it off again, but it leaves a stain for all time.

Everything is valuable under the right conditions. To a man dying of thirst, water be more precious than gold. To a drowning man, water be of little worth and great trouble.

Honor is honesty to what is, not blind duty to what you wish to be.

Teasingly she took the apple from his mouth. Juice ran down his chin. Slowly, deliberately, she leaned over and licked the sweet juice from his chin. I will have to admit though, that I will never look at an apple in quite the same way.

If you are unwilling to defend your right to your own lives, then you are merely like mice trying to argue with owls. You think their ways are wrong. They think you are dinner.

It does the sheep no good to preach the goodness of a diet of grass, if the wolves are of a different mind.