Reading always calmed me down: filling my head with other - made up - people's problems and conflicts made my own seem less terrible, less real.

A turmoil of winds rushed around him, spiraling up in to the air: he was thinking.

You will do as you are told the second you are told to do it. Is that clear?''I'm not six mother, I think I can grasp standard sentences.' Whether I chose to pay attention to them however...

At least it would have been perfect, if it wasn't for my mother.

I loved him, more than anything else in the world and that when he was away it was hard to breath and that I couldn't go through a single second without thinking about him.

He could never care about you. He sees you in the same way they see all of us: ruthless, cruel and power hungry." He laughed callously. "I guess we're about to prove them right.

Your powers don't work in the rain do they? A little bit of water and your fire fizzles out? So Little Miss Perfect does have a weakness after all!

I felt as though a large knot of flames had been lit in my stomach, making me feel nauseous and excited all at once

I'm a Helian, and you're an Arcan. We're just made that way. I don't think we would ever be able to really understand each other.

The hero was the sort of character you could feel yourself falling in love with, no matter how much you tried to convince yourself that he wasn't real

It was exactly the sort of thing I needed to be reading that afternoon: a story where, no matter how bad things got, you knew everything was going to turn out fine in the end.

People who inspire such contradictory emotions must be worthwhile, I reasoned.

Simon did not solve problems, he just shamed them into going away.

Leaving home' to me means adopting the attitude that the pursuit of the truth is more vital than the pursuit of what society — your home — tells you is important.

Discipline without freedom is tyranny; freedom without discipline is chaos.

Bah! The thing is not a nose at all, but a bit of primordial chaos clapped on to my face.

Twitter wanted to become a more egalitarian justice system, but instead it became a draconian one.

Putting a family member in jail is a good sign there is something seriously wrong in the home.

Unless you've been touched personally, it's difficult to see, but there are millions of people who have no voice whatsoever.

A good mind possesses a kingdom.

Make the visible a little hard to see.