Daja: "He and Rosethorn work together? They hate each other." Lark: "I didn't say they liked it. - Daja and Lark referring to Rosethorn and Crane's cooperation on finding the cures for new diseases

Money talks and walks, but it does not bark.

You look as scary as a buttered muffin.

Without patience, magic would be undiscovered - in rushing everything, we would never hear its whisper inside.

Threats are the last resort of a man with no vocabulary.

It's harder to heal than it is to kill.

Waves are the voices of tides. Tides are life.

I myself have noticed my growing resemblance to a daffodil.

Didn't they realize that the only way to change things was to act?

Without reading, we are all without light in the dark, without fire in the cold.

Waves are the voices of tides. Tides are life," murmured Niko. "They bring new food for shore creatures, and take ships out to sea. They are the ocean's pulse, and our own heartbeat.

Literature is the only art in which the audience performs the score.

It is a mistake, " Labruyère tells us, "to be in love without an ample fortune.

Nyree taught me not to trust anyone but Steve quickly corrected that lesson and taught me not to trust everyone.

Sometimes stories are too long and hard to tell. That's why Photography exists.

Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.

There is one great and universal wish of mankind expressed in all religions, in all art and philosophy, and in all human life: the wish to pass beyond himself as he now is.

I'd say my greatest fear is fear itself.

Nothing shows lack of conscience better than bold-faced lying.

Don't get seduced by the next shiny thing, because you'll get caught up chasing shiny things and that will keep you from addressing what you really need to accomplish.

Sure, I'm an optimistic, joyous person, but I'm also afraid and insecure.