But that's how memory works, " Bitterblue said quietly. "Things disappear without your permission, then come back again without your permission." And sometimes they came back incomplete and warped.

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

Katsa and Po were trying to drown each other and, judging from their hoots of laughter, enjoying it immensely.

Sneaking was a kind of deceit. So was disguise. Just past midnight, wearing dark trousers and Fox's hood, the queen snuck out of her own rooms and stepped into a world of stories and lies.

I don't understand your book. Isn't every book a book of words?

Our own story is even more important for us to know than history.

Only a person with the true heart of a dictionary-writer would be lying in bed, three days after being stabbed in the gut, worrying about his P's.

Truths are dangerous, " he said."Then why are you writing them in a book?""To catch them between the pages, " said Teddy, "and trap them before they disappear.

That's interesting, " Bitterblue said. "You think a conscience requires fear?

It was starting to seem to her that being "forward-thinking" too often involved avoiding any kind of thought at all - especially about things that might benefit from a great deal of thinking.

I want to have the heart and mind of a queen, ” she whispered. “I want it more than anything. But I’m only pretending. I can’t find the feeling of it inside

Humanity? Don't be silly. I know. It is knocking down your fellow-men for the sake of your own happiness.

When you find yourself on stage singing and you are embarrassed about what you are singing in front of your peers, then you have to think about your priorities.

People are much more fascinated by your interests than they are by your opinions.

A black Christian is like a black person with no memory.

In recent times Italy have been in a World Cup final every 12 years and I hope to still be there in 2018.

Although tyranny...may successfully rule over foreign peoples, it can stay in power only if it destroys first of all the national institutions of its own people.

"That's done it!" said Sam. "Now I've rung the front-door bell!"

Heroes did not make our liberties; they but reflected and illustrated them.

What pity that Religion and Love, which heighten our relish for the things of both worlds, should ever run the human heart into enthusiasm, superstition, or uncharitableness!

For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.