All my life I've wanted to tell people I love them. Fear usually held me back, that they wouldn't care, or they wouldn't hear, or they would take too much from me once they knew.

Topics... are what people talk about when they don't know each other well. Topics... are what men talk about.

Misery alternates with euphoria.

In hindsight, events seem logical

My favorite color is you.

Education is the antidote to many poisons.

Do not cry, ” she said fiercely, but her own tears flowed. “Do not cry, Finnikin. For if we begin, our tears will never end.

Feelings are more dangerous than ideas, because they aren't susceptible to rational evaluation. They grow quietly, spreading underground, and erupt suddenly, all over the place.

That's what it is to love someone: to give whatever you can while taking what you must.

They say that nameless things change constantly—that names fix them in place like pins.

The gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.

Power is of an encroaching nature.

I'm going to put on my gravestone, 'He never owned a cell phone.'