If you tried to doubt everything you would not get as far as doubting anything. The game of doubting itself presupposes certainty.
You wish for what's called wooing. This customary game, where the man shows the woman that resistance is impractical, strikes me as quite pointless.
Hap sighed. If he could change one thing about Umber-besides his constant need for the thrill of exploration-it would be his obsession with secrets and surprises.
People are so stupid. They think they've got the whole puzzle figured out, but they're really so far off.
Step out of the crowd of average people. Enter that game and change the values on the scoreboard.
In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.
There are times when the world is rearranging itself, and at times like that, the right words can change the world.
But shouldn't they still act like children? They aren't normal. They act like--history. Napoleon and Wellington. Caesar and Brutus.
Do not be disingenuous with me, Colonel Graff. Americans are quite apt at playing stupid when they choose to, but I am not to be deceived.
He felt like part of himself had been taken away, an inward prop that was holding up his courage and confidence.
Just because they didn't know they were killing human beings doesn't mean they weren't killing human beings.
You're a monster. Thanks. Does this mean I get a raise? No, just a medal. The budget isn't inexhaustable.
I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.
In a way she actually preferred Peter to other people because of this. He always acted out of intelligent self-interest.
I’m either with you forever, or I’m not. I’m not into games or fucking around. I’ve had enough experience to know what to hold onto when I get it.
You give me things too," he said in a hushed voice as he bit off the cap. " " "A headache," his smile widened.
What would a racist call werewolves? Wargs? She kind of liked that one, but suspected that racist bastards didn't read Tolkien.
Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as a secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.
You're Professor Mills? The new one who teaches history?" As opposed to the old Professor Mills who preached overthrow of the government?
Maybe like the never-ending stories within stories of the One Thousand and One Nights, life is dream within dream all the way through?
It shows a mediocre architect at the top of his game [on the Beetham Tower in Manchester]
