New dreams are like new wines; they grow sweeter over time. With patience, you will be able to climb your spiritual, financial, academic, marital and social ladders in Jesus' name!

— Israelmore Ayivor

Nonsense has taken up residence in the heart of public debate and also in the academy. This nonsense is part of the huge fund of unreason on which the plans and schemes of optimists draw for their vitality. Nonsense confiscates meaning. It thereby puts truth and falsehood, reason and unreason, light and darkness on an equal footing. It is a blow cast in defense of intellectual freedom, as the optimists construe it, namely the freedom to believe anything at all, provided you feel better for it.

— Roger Scruton

Not into older guys, huh?" asked Adrian once we were alone." You're imagining things," I said. "Clearly, my stunning beauty has clouded your mind.

— Richelle Mead

Scholarship that is indifferent to human suffering is immoral.

— Richard Levins

Sweat isn't a bad thing," he said, leaning his head against the wall thoughtfully. "Some of the best things in life happen while your sweating. Yeah, if you get too much of it, and it gets old and stale, it turns pretty gross. But on a beautiful woman? Intoxicating. If you could smell things like a vampire does, you'd know what I'm talking about. Most people mess it all up and drown themselves in perfume. Perfume can be good...especially if you get one that goes with your chemistry. But you only need a hint. Mix about 20 percent of that with 80 percent of your own perspiration...mmm." He tilted his head to the side and looked at me. "Dead sexy.

— Richelle Mead

That's pretty hot," he said." Punching me in the eye?"" Well, no. Of course not. I meant the idea of getting rough with you is hot. I'm a big fan of full-contact sports."" I'm sure you are.

— Richelle Mead

Their islet much I wouldst do for you. The stupider, the better.

— Richelle Mead

The only thing better than imagining Dimitri carrying me in his arms was imagining him shirtless while carrying me in his arms.

— Richelle Mead

There's nothing worse than waiting and not knowing what'll happen to you. Your own imagination can be crueler than any captor.

— Richelle Mead

They were frisky, eager and exuberant, and they had all been friends in the States. They were plainly unthinkable. Furthermore, they were noisy, overconfident, empty-headed kids of twenty-one. Furthermore, they had gone to college and were engaged to pretty, clean girls whose pictures were already standing on the rough cement mantelpiece of Orr's fireplace. Furthermore, they had ridden in speedboats and played tennis. Furthermore, they had been horseback riding. One had once been to bed with an older woman. They knew the same people in different parts of the country and had gone to school with each other's cousins.

— Joseph Heller