Red blood is just so hard to clean up" "You would know" I snap remembering Shade. "Because no matter how hard you try to hid it I see it all over your hands

In the fairy tales, the poor girl smiles when she becomes a princess. Right now, I don't know if I'll ever smile again.

You want me to pin my entire operation, the entire revolution on some teenaged love story? I can't believe this.

I am the shadow of the flame.

They don't know the meaning of danger or fear or pain. It's only their pride that can be truly hurt.

Their Silver war is being paid for in Red blood.

The war never leaves.

For their lives, for their children's lives, they will give up what little freedom they had left.

I'm afraid of failing. I'm afraid of letting this opportunity pass us by. And I'm afraid of what happens if nothing in this world ever changes.

So you choose him?''Cal betrayed me, and I betrayed him. And you betrayed us both, in a thousand different ways.' The words are heavy as stone but right. So right. 'I choose no one.

Words can lie. See beyond them.

The universe is God's son.

I like good company, but I like hard work still better.

I keep a journal, and every day I write down one great play that I had that day. I don't write down any negatives.

When an audience comes to one of my concerts, I hope they'll see themselves, somewhere, in one of the songs.

At one point I intended to write precursor and sequel novels, about the establishment of the Web and its next evolution, but I am very unlikely to now; they would take place in a different universe.

The way the parts of me sometimes disagree, it's a wonder this body doesn't shatter.

Take it that you have died today, and your life's story is ended; and henceforward regard what future time may be given you as uncovenanted surplus, and live it out in harmony with nature.

‎It is a cruel injustice to tell a bootless man to pull himself up by his bootstraps.

Women have more rights, and women do have their own power in the world.