In Will's experience, when someone who ought to be afraid wasn't, the reason was rarely bravery. Usually it meant that they knew something you didn't.

Let me give you a piece of advice. The handsome young fellow who's trying to rescue you from a hideous fate is never wrong. Not even if he says the sky is purple and made of hedgehogs.

Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.

Your angel cannot protect you against that which neither god nor the devil had made

Will looked horrified. "What kind of monster could possibly hate chocolate?

It is as great a thing to love as it is to be loved. Love is not something that can be wasted.

It isn't against the Law to be an idiot.

Demon pox. There's always demon pox.

He banged on the side of the carriage. "Thomas! We must away at once to the nearest brothel. I seek scandal and low companionship.

While the Clave disapproves of trespassers, oddly they take an even darker view of beheading and skinning people. They're peculiar that way.

When you find a man you wish to marry, Tessa, remember this: You will know what kind of man he is not by the things he says, but by the things he does.

You can build your strength, If you read enough books!

We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it.

The truth of a man is first and foremost what he hides.

The row of dolls watched her impassively from the bookshelf, their tea party propriety almost certainly offended.

Before rap came along, I was, actually, actively in the streets; getting in trouble, doing the wrong thing.

One of the main problems in families today is that we spend less and less time together.... Time together is precious time-time needed to talk, to listen, to encourage, and to show how to do things.

The cause of homelessness is lack of housing.

You never know when the best day of your life is going to be.

If you think success is about so many more things and is so much more arbitrary, then you can be much more open to the idea that you can be Ben Fountain and publish your great book at forty-nine.

Critical thinking is what leads to the next breakthroughs in any area.