"Teachers can go on cruises with the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration and anyone can spend the summer as a volunteer in a National Parks and even earn money doing it."

“Desks are terrible places, no matter how many wheels a chair might have. You can't do much about how drawers fill up.”

“It's good to be out of your comfort zone. Just don't step out of your gift zone.”

“I don't feel like myself unless I run. It's how I deal with sadness and happiness. I need it. It's like therapy.”

“Men and swords. My father said that if you put any able-bodied man, no matter how peaceful, into a room with a sword and a practice dummy and leave him alone, eventually the man would pick up the sword and try to stab the dummy. It is human nature.”

Source : Ilona Andrews (2007). “Magic Bites”, p.110, Penguin

“A woman is closest to being naked when she is well-dressed.”

“Sometimes I lie awake at night and think about that little red-haired girl... I don't ever want to forget her face, but if I don't forget her face, I'll go crazy... How can I remember the face I can't forget? Suddenly I'm writing country western music!”

“Sin is dark and loves the dark, still hides from itself in gloom, and in the darkest hell is still itself the darkest hell and the severest woe.”

Source : Robert Pollok, James Robert Boyd (1860). “Pollok's Course of Time”, p.288

“What is needed in the present plight of mankind is not more science but a change of heart that shall move mankind to devote to constructive and peaceful purposes ...”