“The smile was so painfully swift and fleeting that it was like the flash of a knife.”

“Now it cuts like a knife,
But it feels so right.”

“It never felt so good, it never felt so right
And we're glowing like the metal on the edge of a knife.”

“On no other stage are the scenes shifted with a swiftness so like magic as on the great stage of history when once the hour strikes.”

“But magic is neither good nor evil. It is a tool, like a knife. Is a knife evil? Only if the wielder is evil.”

“This world is all a fleeting show,
For man's illusion given;
The smiles of joy, the tears of woe,
Deceitful shine, deceitful flow,—
There's nothing true but Heaven.”

“Kat!” Gabrielle hissed. “You’re going to get caught."
The smile Kat flashed over her shoulder was almost wicked. “I know.”

“Summer romances end for all kinds of reasons. But when all is said and done, they have one thing in common: They are shooting stars-a spectacular moment of light in the heavens, a fleeting glimpse of eternity. And in a flash, they're gone.”

“The taipan is the one to watch out for. It is the most poisonous snake on Earth, with a lunge so swift and a venom so potent that your last mortal utterance is likely to be: "I say, is that a sn--”

“She was like an avenging angel, her vengeance swift and deadly.”