It's only water," she said. "Tell that to a drowning man," Giddon said.

Location: Amsterdam, Where Fire Is Called "Vlam

I'm not good at love. I'm like a barbed creature. I push everyone I love away.

When a monster stopped behaving like a monster, did it stop being a monster? Did it become something else?

The only way for you to keep your mind straight is to run from those who would confuse you.

I don't want to love you if you're only going to die.

He considered her seriously. "Well. And that's easy," he said. "My Grace will protect me from him, And I'll protect you. You'll be safe with me, Katsa.

I'm not such a bad fighter myself," Skye said. Po exploded with laughter. "Oh, fight him, Katsa. Please fight him. I can't imagine a more entertaining diversion.

Your eyes are beautiful," he said, and she felt warm suddenly, warm in the sun that dappled through the treetops and rested on them in patches.

Wonderful," Garan grumbled when he'd gone. "We'll grow a reputation for our kindness to lawbreakers.

Every configuration of people is an entirely new universe unto itself.

The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.

The woman seems ready to be pleased with the world.

Quite frankly, I didn't become an actor to become a movie star. I have never dreamed about being the most famous person on the planet. I just want to do really good work.

The challenge as a parent is letting your kids fail in the right ways because that's where we do most of our learning.

I was a good football player, and I had a chance to play with some great players.

My beloved Mom and Pop always rated tops with each other, and that's the way it will always be.

A writer's ambition should be to trade a hundred contemporary readers for ten readers in ten years' time and for one reader in a hundred years' time.

Of all the movies I've done in my life, the one where I play a crazy awful psycho woman finds me my husband.

It was only a phrase that went from mouth to mouth and was never quite swallowed.

Books are slow. They require time; they are written slowly, published slowly, and read slowly.