“What one hears in Ranke. The whisper of statecraft. Not the tramp of democracy's earthquake feet. Not the dull roar of surging opinion.”

“Crazy Curran ranked right up there with monsoons, tornadoes, earthquakes, and other natural disasters.”

“They hear like ocean on a western beach
The surge and thunder of the Odyssey.”

“Goodbye," I whisper at last, when it no longer matters and there is no one to hear it but the window.”

“I am woman, hear me roar.”

“I am a woman, hear me roar," I said.
Gosh, what prompted that?" Amelia asked, and I jumped”

“Now on a towering arch of waves we rise,
Heaved on the bounding billows, to the skies.
Then, as the roaring surge retreating fell,
We shoot down headlong to the depths of hell.”

“Opinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours.”

“Deep down, below the surface of the average man's conscience, he hears a voice whispering, "There is something not right," no matter how much his rightness is supported by public opinion or moral code.”

“I don’t see a way in,” Eve whispered.
Why are you whispering?” Myrnin whispered back. “Vampires can hear us, anyway.”