A book that bores me to tears is a book that neglects character building and quality of prose.

Location: Amsterdam, Where Fire Is Called "Vlam

I'm not good at love. I'm like a barbed creature. I push everyone I love away.

When a monster stopped behaving like a monster, did it stop being a monster? Did it become something else?

The only way for you to keep your mind straight is to run from those who would confuse you.

I don't want to love you if you're only going to die.

He considered her seriously. "Well. And that's easy," he said. "My Grace will protect me from him, And I'll protect you. You'll be safe with me, Katsa.

I'm not such a bad fighter myself," Skye said. Po exploded with laughter. "Oh, fight him, Katsa. Please fight him. I can't imagine a more entertaining diversion.

Your eyes are beautiful," he said, and she felt warm suddenly, warm in the sun that dappled through the treetops and rested on them in patches.

Wonderful," Garan grumbled when he'd gone. "We'll grow a reputation for our kindness to lawbreakers.

Every configuration of people is an entirely new universe unto itself.

Cheer up and give them out there a good reason to be happy.

There's pride and then there's stupidity.

The House is rooted in the principle of direct elections and is unique among all branches and bodies of the federal government as without exception, the people's voice.

Some people play a horse to win, some to place. I should have bet this horse to live.

Thinking about interior peace destroys interior peace. The patient who constantly feels his pulse is not getting any better.

Don't let your negative self beliefs haunt you out of taking action. You owe it to yourself to live the life that you desire.

A good writer can watch a cat pad across the street and know what it is to be pounced upon by a Bengal tiger.

You can love a person deeply and sincerely whom you do not like. You can like a person passionately whom you do not love.

The important thing is to make a different world, to make a world that is not now. A real world, a genuine world, but one that allows myth to live. The myth is everything.

Astonishment is the proper response to reality.