“I think the biggest lie the devil ever told was that beauty and goodness are the same.”

“Do you know what makes someone beautiful? Confidence. You don't have to have this shape eyes or that shape lips. No one seems to be able to decide which shape is best anyway. You can have every kin...”

“If it looks real and feels real, do you think it matters if it's real?”

“It's not worth losing your soul to win a guy.”

“The world is full of stupid people. That's why we have rules. But with enough intelligence, a person can be above the rules. She can make rules.”

“Because some things that seem unimportant now can change the course of human history -- and I am a student of human history.”

“It is so much more threatening to have something out of hand than to believe that at any moment I can stop (I started to say "This foolishness") any time I need to.”

“By Fortune's adverse buffets overborneTo solitude I fled, to wilds forlorn,And not in utter loneliness to live,Myself at last did to the Devil give!”

“I felt the back of my neck crawl. The crawling reached around to the corners of my jaw, then up to my temple, and across my cheeks.I reached up to touch it. Splinters, small fingers, hooks. Scrapin...”

“To be of value to humanity, start by thinking for yourself.”

“Love is not an emotion. It is your very existence.”

“The General belonged to the learned type of military men who believed that liberal and humane views can be reconciled with their profession. But being by nature a kind and intelligent man, he soon ...”