Gina always believed there was magic in the world. "But it doesn't work in the way it does in fairy tales, " she told me. "It doesn't save us. We have to save ourselves.

...if charity begins at home, empire begins in other men's homes.

It’s like my whole life my left ring finger has been lacking something, and finally it feels complete.

True liberty consists only in the power of doing what we ought to will, and in not being constrained to do what we ought not to will.

We're playing for our lives now.

I always loved cooking, from an early age. I kind of wanted to be a chef.

I think it's good to leave people with the memory of that being a great character. And if we have a reason to bring him back, we'll bring him back.

One thing I do know, and that is, that neither hope, nor fear, belief, nor denial, can change the fact. It is as it is, and it will be as it must be.

Mat had tried to make her say she saw a hat floating around Mat's head. That would persuade Tuon to stop trying to get rid of his, would it not?

I don't spend the day writing. I'll maybe write fresh copy for two hours, and then I'll go back and revise some of it and print what I like and then turn it off.

If you don’t do something differently, you’ll ultimately be where you are now, only later.