She didn't know what would happen because of this. But she knew that today, she would hurt no one. She threw back her blankets and though only of today.

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.

Consciousness is only possible through change

Mam said I was growing up. I felt that I was dying.

You have to become the 'first of yourself' instead of trying to become the second of anyone.

One thing the military does far better than business is train its own leaders. I can't go to IBM and hire a battalion commander. They don't have any.

Beliefs that are good promote your potential and enhance your unique special qualities.

[Science is] a great game. It is inspiring and refreshing. The playing field is the universe itself.

Music should be like making love. Sometimes you want it soft and tender, another time you want it hard and aggressive.

I'm a real big electronic music nut; when I was young I listened to musique concrète, German music from Cologne in the early 50s, all kinds of stuff.

Maybe the two different worlds we lived in weren't so different. We saw the same sunset.

I would stay in my room for days, for days at times, just trying to get it together, to know what my next phase was going to be.