“You're just jealous.""Hardly. Been there, done you. Adequate, but unremarkable.”

“This is really good, Donovan Caine said, attacking his third strawberry pancake. You sound surprised, I said. He shrugged. I just didnt think an assassin would be able to cook like this. Well, I do...”

“This is really good,” Donovan Caine said, attacking his third strawberry pancake. “You sound surprised,” I said. He shrugged. “I just didn’t think an assassin would be able to cook like this.” “Wel...”

“The spiritual life to me has always meant just one thing: feeling.”

“since feeling is firstwho pays any attentionto the syntax of thingswill never wholly kiss you;wholly to be a foolwhile Spring is in the worldmy blood approves,and kisses are a far better fatethan w...”

“Shes kept her love for him as alive as the summer they first met. In order to do this, shes turned life away. Sometimes she subsists for days on water and air. Being the only known complex life-for...”

“There are many things worth living for, a few things worth dying for, and nothing worth killing for.”

“Every war, no matter how brutal, is built on the premise that one day, when all is said and done, the ends will justify the means. But over and over again we learn that in real life, there is no en...”

“For so many families, here and abroad, the war is just beginning. The emotional and political fallout will crawl across generationsthe casualties can never be fully counted.Every war, no matter how...”

“I avoid that bleak first hour of the working day during which my still sluggish senses and body make every chore a penance. I find that in arriving later, the work which I do perform is of a much h...”

“How did it get so late so soon? It's night before it's afternoon. December is here before it's June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?”

“If you want to know the value of a minute ask the person who came to the train station or airport a minute late.”