Because hope comes from in you, and wishes are just magic.

She moved like a poem and smiled like a sphinx.

Hope can be a powerful force. Maybe there's no actual magic in it, but when you know what you hope for most and hold it like a light within you, you can make things happen, almost like magic.

I know it's not easy for you, living this life, but try to remember, always try to remember, you're not the only one with troubles.

Creamy and leggy, with long azure hair and the eyes of a silent-movie star, she moved like a poem and smiled like a sphinx.

...something was starting to take shape, out of magic and will. Smoke and bone.

Did you know that mako shark fetuses eat each other in the womb?... Its true. Only cannibal fetuses survive to be born. Can you imagine if people were like that?

And just so you know, the invaders are always the bad guys. Always.

And they were quiet but their blood and nerves and butterflies were not—they were rampantly alive, rushing and thrumming in a wild and perfect melody, matched note for note.

My tiny scary friend is coming

You really think joy is easier to come by than pain? What have you had more of?

You are not a human being living your life, but you are a spiritual being longing for life.

Settle down, Maverick, this isn’t the danger zone.

Where did you think playing with angels was going to get you?

Anxiety is the interest paid on trouble before it is due.

I think art is good at looking back and looking forward. I don't think art is good at looking head-on. At the end of the day, people are more important than paintings.

During the day I don't wear much makeup.

I like to relax. Spend it with people that I've grown up with, or people that I care about, and just relax, sit around doing nothing or sitting on a beach.

Few of us write great novels; all of us live them.

In analysing history do not be too profound, for often the causes are quite superficial.