It is stupid to hope, but sometimes hope is all you have.

Tell me you love me. Tell me you love me and will fight with me.

Too much of anything could destroy you, Simon thought. Too much darkness could kill, but too much light could blind.

Church was doing what he often did when dropped - lying on his back with all four legs in the air, pretending to be dead in order to induce guilt in his owners.

Don’t take this the wrong way, but you smell like Magnus.

It was stupid to hope, she knew. But sometimes hope was all you had.

The only way that we can protect each other is if we are together. If we face things together. If we trust each other.

There’s more to honesty than … than an arrangement of words. They say faeries can’t lie, but you lie in your intentions, your attitude, your demeanor —

Of course he loves me. I’m his sister.”“Blood isn’t love, ” said Magnus, and his voice was bitter.

Not enough, " he said, letting her hair slip through his fingers. "If I kiss you all day, everyday, for the rest of my life, it won't be enough.

Ah, ” said Magnus. “Nerd love. It is a beautiful thing, while also being an object of mockery and hilarity for those of us who are more sophisticated.

Young people are experts on leisure, water skiing, dancing, rock music, rapping, TV watching . . . by and large, chores are a thing of the past.

It is not power that corrupts but fear. The fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.

Hello,Pepper. It´s been a while," I said. "The last time we met up, you tried to kidnap me, isn´t that right?" Nora (p.303)

The Doctrine of Evolution states the fact that the present is the child of the past and the parent of the future.

This album is moments that I haven't done before, like just my voice and drums. What people call a rant - but put it next to just a drumbeat, and it cuts to the level of, like, Run-D.M.C. or KRS-One.

On a very gloomy dismal day, just such a one as it ought to be, I went to see Westminster Abbey.

For me nonviolence is a creed. I must act up to it, whether I am alone or have companions.

Every swindle is driven by a desire for easy money; it's the one thing the swindler and the swindled have in common.

I have no regrets. I have spent my life, so much of it, building up this country. There's nothing more that I need to do.

When you educate a girl, you kick-start a cycle of success. It makes economic sense. It makes social sense. It makes moral sense. But, it seems, it's not common sense yet.