This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but to be hurled with great force.

This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.

I like best to have one book in my hand, and a stack of others on the floor beside me, so as to know the supply of poppy and mandragora will not run out before the small hours.

I am still working on becoming a leader and knowing the role I have. I cannot force it. I have to take what the opposing defenses give me and not try to do too much.

When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished voluntarily by default it can never be recovered.

I did think it a little ironic that we can have two task force meetings and a public hearing and have a half-cent sales tax within six months but we still don't have a clear direction on a nonsmoking ordinance,