All things in Fiji are paid for in blood.

Never bet your money on another man’s game.

I am not a twenty-two-year-old boy; I am not a besotted fool. If you think to jilt me, think again. For I will not turn tail and run the other way as he did, oh...

No man as godly as George, the only fault he finds with God is that he made folk with too few orifices. If George could meet a woman with a quinny under her armpit, he...

He nodded, looking across the room at the sea of photographers and journalists. The microphones spread around him like birds waiting to be fed.

Even still, it wasn’t over. For if a battle could be won so easily, men would soon forget its horrors and clamor for it all the more. War would come more than once or twice...

Why else do we write and write except to move our readers?

Why write about the past? Well, there’s more of it.

Her entire life, she’d been told sin was wrong, a black and white interpretation of what is evil and what is holy in the world—colored like a priest’s robe and collar—but she never believed it...

Oh, she’s still here;she’s just not as pretty… anymore.

Perhaps you have visited my grave and flowers left, but did you hear me cry out to you!

So when I saw you lying in the shed there, I thought that even God couldn’t be that cruel. You were everything I ever asked for – so maybe you could also be the love...

Outwardly, I hope, I wear my usual mask of detachment, even irony, for there has never been a situation,however dire, even this one, that did not strike me as containing at least some element of...

Riding a bull must be a bit like flying an ultralight. You get up there and have an exhilarating ride, but then you still have to get down.

I know not by what power I am drawn to you, but it is as a moth is drawn to the flame, and I cannot fight it, I must be consumed.

In my end lies my beginning” Who said that? Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots (1542-1587).

On Christmas morning, Rebecca lost her moral virginity, her sense of humor – and her two best friends. But, other than that, it was a hell of a holiday.

Enjoy the ride!

I intend to marry Michael, and squander all his money and run his life, and make sure he never again consorts with wicked women or gambles with licentious men. I promise I will henpeck him...

Scarlett O’Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm as the Tarleton twins were. In her face were too sharply blended the delicate features of her mother, a Coast...

I’ve never met anyone as kind as you are, except me Mum, o’ course.” –Benjamin Trimmel to Lady Alexandra.

LIPID (Last Idiot Person I Dated) syndrome: a largely undiagnosed but pervasive disease that afflicts single women.

Like the magnolia tree, She bends with the wind,Trials and tribulation may weather her, Yet, after the storm her beauty blooms, See her standing there, like steel, With her roots forever buried,Deep in her Southern...

Mankind in the aggregate I have found to be brutish, ignorant and unkind, whether those qualities were covered by the coarse tunic of the peasant of the white and purple toga of a senator. And...

Long ago she’d clamped an iron shell around her heart and nothing and no one could pry it lose, but deep inside the tender flesh still beat.

Lightening flashed again and again but above the shriek of the wind and the pounding hail they never heard the thunder.

Think ere you speak

Moonlight does things to a street scene that no other natural or man-made phenomenon can effect. People walk slower, their smiles lingering on contended faces. Horses that usually move along fast enough to stir up...

Through enjoyment we endure.

You are both daring and unscrupulous, and you think fast. I have been looking for a person with those particular characteristics. Also I noticed you speak Babylonian.

To survive one tragedy was to learn you cannot survive them all, and this knowledge was both a freedom and a great loss.

I’ll find out who’s inside. Wait here and keep alert!’ Hallam rasped. He skirted the main path to skulk towards one of the shuttered windows on the building’s eastern wall. There was a crack in...

No, It’s not fair. But I was thinking more along the lines of the Pentagon and Washington itself. Sometimes I suspect that those who are running things might grow addicted to power. Secrecy’s essential in...

When we decided to move West, I worried about how to defend my family and my stock from Indians, but I never worried about inheriting one!”–from Prairie Grace when Georgia’s father Thomas realizes gravely ill...

I will not stand by and let any man believe his death is an act of one of the gods. They don’t deserve the credit. This is just nature, a side effect of mortality –...

I can hear my steps echo as I follow him to the end of the hall. The door to the small closet under the steps is standing ajar. He closes the door and latches it.

If you can walk with the crowd and keep your virtue, or walk with Kings-nor lose the common touch; If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you; If all men count with you, but...

If you can write, you can read. And if you can read, you can better understand the world and its different societies. Knowledge is the key to destroying prejudice and individual hate, which always culminates...

Go to the edge of the cliff and jump off. Build your wings on the way down.–Ray Bradbury

I been running up a bill with the devil ever since, and now he’s come to collect on the debt.

Alana Marks had always known she was different. From her gypsy childhood, to the way she now made her living in the movies, she’d always lived on the edge. She’d been paid to leap from...

I said to my mother, Henry VII is interesting. No he’s not, my mother said.

One word was the method by which the state collected their information. They could reel in the informants and spread them out like tentacles, ready to sting in any direction.

Septimus grinned. “It’s not coins I seek. I seek the power of Hercules.

You can only chase a butterfly for so long.

All of my books are acts of subversion disguised as historical fiction.

It is dark and there are bad creatures in these woods.””Yes, there are…

Ain’t nothing too serious. Even death is a joke on the old devil, if we are living for the Lord.

Whenever doubts become a crime… whenever parents become afraid their children might turn them in; a country where the power of the government is mired inextricably with the jurisdiction and the executive, where you have...

…it has always been my temperament to prefer a tiny amount of the excellent to a plenitude of the mediocre…