Fire sat unbreathing. A life that was an apology for the life of his father: It was a notion she could understand, beyond words and thought. She understood it the way she understood music.

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.

If you have nothing, don’t worry. You still have a smile and love to win the world.

Every day, I want to sleep in your arms and wake up by your side in the mornings.

.. And now it was official: I loved REI more than I loved the people behind Snapple lemonade.

I really do believe that education, despite this massive potential in transforming human lives, has not received the kind of attention that people should have given to it.

The average man will bristle if you say his father was dishonest, but he will brag a little if he discovers that his great-grandfather was a Pirate.

Since we are not permitted to act, we are obliged to know.

People handle stress in different ways.

When you kneel in prayer, don't give God orders, just report to your Commander in Chief for duty.

Not all the labour of the earth Is done by hardened hands.