To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.
...spirituality alone will not take a man far in the Mysteries; he must have intellectual powers as well.
Our fathers were demons,' Catarina said. 'Our mothers were heroes.
Magnus was sure that the llama stampede he witnessed was a coincidence. The llamas could not be judging him.
There was no point in wallowing. Magnus refused to wallow. Wallowing was for elephants, depressing people, and depressing elephants.
Men in our culture have been spoiled, treated with false reverence instead of respect.
I was a child when the March on Washington led by Martin Luther King occurred, and I wanted to hear what was going on. I wanted to be a part of it. I wanted to contribute in the best way I possibly could.
The best compliment to a child or a friend is the feeling you give him that he has been set free to make his own inquiries, to come to conclusions that are right for him, whether or not they coincide with your own.
I worry whether it's not really the best way to live one's life - trying to fulfill the dreams you had as a child. Maybe it's quite a backwards approach.
The images I like best are parts of series that I've started, in some cases, with the pregnancies of the mothers of the children in question, and I continue that series right on through the birth of children to the child that resulted from that first...
I'm one of five; I have three sisters, so I've always had three best girlfriends. Actually, I'm the middle child, so it's no surprise I went into acting! There's a need to be seen.
I think every mother feels that the best place for their child is with their mum, but you want things for yourself, too. So, you're either at work feeling guilty, or you are at home feeling frustrated.
Every parent wants to do what's best for their child. Whatever I can afford, I'm going to get my kid the best education I can get.
As any new parent knows, you're only too happy to show off your new child and, you know, proclaim that he is the best looking or the best everything.
I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it.
I'm a believer of destiny, and I believe I'm destiny's child. I've seen the highs, and I've seen the lows, and I believe things happen for a reason and always for the best.
Our life ripples out, and it has influence. That's why it's important that we're at our best and that we're influencing others for the good.
Will smiled the way Lucifer might have smiled, moments before he fell from Heaven.
He had lost Will Herondale. And he did not know if he could ever get him back.
Jem spoke with enormous care; talking to Will about anything personal was like trying not to startle away a wild animal.
What’s your name, then? ”Tessa looked at him in disbelief. “What’s my name?” “Don’t you know it?
