The real reason we have faces," Margot Lassiter observes, "is to hold back what we're thinking from the world.

The larger crimes are apt to be the simpler, for the bigger the crime, the more obvious, as a rule, is the motive.

LIPID (Last Idiot Person I Dated) syndrome: a largely undiagnosed but pervasive disease that afflicts single women.

Here God is not approached as an object that we must love, but as a mystery present in the very act of love itself.

And then split his own cranium in half. I would like to see you do that yourself Blore. It would take some practice.

Not every secret must be solved; some must be left as a mystery because we cannot bear a universe without mysteries!

Por que en las epocas oscurasse escribe con tinta invisible?Why in the darkest agesdo they write with invisible ink?

I studied his face, and as I did, I realized that he was studying me, our thoughts tangling in mid-air for a moment.

Her hair was pulled back so severely, it would have won approval from the Spanish Inquisition as a method of torture.

There is no such thing as magic, supernatural, miracle; only something that's still beyond logic of the observer.

The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown.

I did not look for her, because I was afraid of dispelling the mystery we attach to people whom we know only casually.

Days, weeks, months, years," said the boy. "Minutes and hours and seconds. I don't know about any of those things.

It's immeasurably easier to live in a world that's all surfaces, that means nothing and demands nothing of you.

So, we eat again. Well, perhaps the relationship wouldn’t go anywhere, but I would certainly put on a few pounds.