I was just cleaning up my own mess, Baz. Like, no one would call you a hero for cleaning up your own vomit.

You were the sun, and I was crashing into you.

I can't believe there's a part of you that grows when you need it. You're like a mutant.""I'm a vampire, " Baz says, "and can you hear yourself?

She's all brute force and '90s clichés.

And what does it mean to take care of power? Do you use it? Conserve it? Keep it out of the wrong hands?

You were the sun, and I was crashing into you

Because, he says, it hurts to think about things that you can't have or help. S'better not to think about it.

Moriré besando a Simon Snow. Simon Snow morirá besándome.

He smiles, and he's made of trouble. We should have dropped him in the Thames in a bag of stones. We should have left him out for the fairies.

If you're as good as your word, words should be good enough.

Snow's table manners are atrocious - it's like watching a wild dog eat. A wild dog you'd like to slip the tongue.

The thrill of falling in love is often the thrill of being loved

Light is found on the green.

The hopeful lenses of our eyes are fixed on the busy hands of our dependable God... He is working hardly on our prayers... Don't be afraid!

People today...it seems they are good, or sometimes evil, mostly by inertia, not by choice.

We bring to everything we read the expectations we have built up by a lifetime of reading.

If we're going to live as we are in a world of supply and demand, then journalists had better find a way to create a demand for good journalism.

A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.

All friendships are negotiations of power.

Truly disappointment is the guardian deity of human life; she sits at the threshold of unborn time, and marshals the events as they come forth.

The notion of the hero as outsider, as alien, is forget it, over, done with. It's not about being against society anymore. It's about standing there, holding something up. It's not pulling away.