Before I became a suspense novelist, I wrote romantic suspense as Alicia Scott.

By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

Charles Dickens

Everybody always wants to rebel against their parents' music, but nobody listened to music louder than my dad.

Dan Auerbach

The commonest objection to birth control is that it is against nature.

Bertrand Russell

What a pity we don't pursue the salvation of humans with the same verve we pursue the salvation of animals

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It is not the business of generals to shoot one another.

Arthur Wellesley

A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.

Samuel Butler

Mutual aid is as much a law of animal life as mutual struggle.

Prince Pyotr Kropotkin

None of us is guaranteed against failure or corruption of any kind witness what's going on in the world in this moment, the follies of human nature and the failures of human nature.

Morris West

The truth was I knew, after all those flat January days, that I deserved better. I deserved I love yous and kiwi fruits and warriors coming to my door, besotted with love. I deserved pictures of my face in a thousand expressions, and the warmth of a baby's kick beneath my hand. I deserved to grow, and to change, to become all the girls I could be over the course of my life, each one better than the last.

Sarah Dessen

A guerra é a forma de Deus en­si­nar ge­o­grafia aos ame­ri­ca­nos.

Ambrose Bierce

A wise man turns chance into good fortune.

Thomas Fuller

I began my career with infantile dreams of becoming a composer.

Ivor Novello