I kissed Ryan, and it charged him up like a freaking Duracell.

Right then I wasn't a freak. I wasn't an ice queen. I didn't have powers. What I had was a friend comforting me when I needed it most. Right then I was just a normal girl, and Ryan was the superhero.

We fear what we don’t know, or whatever seems like a mystery to us.

You do what you have to do. That's who you seem to be to me, anyway. You're one who does what he has to do.

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.

If a given combination of trees, mountains, water, and houses, say a landscape, is beautiful, it is not so by itself, but because of me, of my favor, of the idea or feeling I attach to it.

The heart which finds life in material wealth is usually certain to go farther and seek for more in the satisfaction of base and sullen appetites.

The soul cannot thrive in the absence of art.

Misogyny is the death of the heart.

If you see most people neglect the Bible, and many that can read never look into it, let it not harden you and make you think lightly of it, and that it is a book of no worth.

If you can see it, you can have it.

There is no such thing as a villain. It's the others who are wrong. In as much, all villains are the same.