Maybe you're going insane." "Maybe," agreed Kernel. "I was joking." "I wasn't.

You do not have to be alone. The world never inflicts loneliness upon us. That is something we choose or reject by ourselves.

Destiny's what you make of it. You have to face whatever life throws at you.

It is good to be taught humility when we are young. If we do not exeperience pain as children, we will cause pain as adults.

I know that no matter how lonely I get, I'll never be truly alone again. Our loved ones don't leave us. They just move out of sight for a while, and wait...in the shades.

Better not to start down a wrong path at all than head down it in the hope of making a detour when something better came along.

If he turned his back on humanity now, it would be forever.

The demons were scary, but girls - Well, girls are really terrifying

I'm starting to understand that fear is like cancer - you can beat it back, but if it returns, it can be worse than ever.

But you're like me,” he says. “An outsider. Different. A freak. We're both weird, which is why we get along.

Destiny is a tower of cards - nudge one just an inch and everything stacked on top comes crashing down. P116

Victorious troops are those who kill more, and here we were the victims. This put the finishing touch to our demoralisation. The soldiers had lost conviction long ago. Now they lost confidence.

I don't make friends based on how big their pockets are or how well connected they are

The virtue of prosperity is temperance the virtue of adversity is fortitude.

It is not enough to show people how to live better: there is a mandate for any group with enormous powers of communication to show people how to be better.

In my mind, everything is too sanitised on television - what is wrong with things going wrong?

If you betray yourself, you are no different from the people who hurt you. What's the difference between those people who hurt you and what you are doing to yourself?

The ideas dictate everything.

In the United States, the last recorded clitoridectomy for curing masturbation was performed in 1948--on a five year old girl.

Trifling trouble find utterance; deeply felt pangs are silent.

When the rare chance comes, seize it To do the rare deed.