That was when they suspended the Constitution. They said it would be temporary. There wasn't even any rioting in the streets. People stayed home at n….

Time is not a line but a dimension, like the dimensions of space..

Time has not stood still. It has washed over me, washed me away, as if I'm nothing more than a woman of sand, left by a careless child too near the w….

I no longer feel I'll be dead by thirty; now it's sixty. I suppose these deadlines we set for ourselves are really a way of saying we appreciate time….

Don't let the bastards grind you down..

A rat in a maze is free to go anywhere, as long as it stays inside the maze..

Winning intoxicates you, and numbs you to the sufferings of others..

I don't find the idea of sewing degrading. A thing is degrading when you are forced to do it, through economic reasons or through slavery or some oth….

Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress. Water is not a solid wall, it will not stop you. But….

Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress..

Vampires get the joy of flying around and living forever, werewolves get the joy of animal spirits. But zombies, they're not rich, or aristocratic, t….

In Shakespeare Saved My Life, [author Laura Bates] said she got better papers from [prisoners] than she got from people in her regular classes. Becau….

Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized..

All observations of life are harsh, because life is. I lament that fact, but I cannot change it..

Ordinary, said Aunt Lydia, is what you are used to. This may not seem ordinary to you now, but after a time it will. It will become ordinary..

I exist in two places, here and where you are..

I was kidnapped by literature at a young age and never wanted to be ransomed..

I would rather dance as a ballerina, though faultily, than as a flawless clown..

I believe in the resistance as I believe there can be no light without shadow; or rather, no shadow unless there is also light..

Don't misunderstand me. I am not scoffing at goodness, which is far more difficult to explain than evil, and far more complicated. But sometimes it's….

We are very short on organs, and the pig solution is probably a lot better than the human clone solution - though maybe not for the pigs..