She heard him speak, but did not recognise the problem in his voice – only later did she realise it was that thing he’d been concealing – known as guilt.

Katie soon learned there was a problem with hope.

Bea stared at the pencils as if they were enemies.

Prayer is better than pills.

The breeze around them seemed to drop – dead – like a door to the best things had just closed.

He had become the sky around the sun – alive, but not really there.

Youngsters deserve no opinions.

A silence absorbed them both – a lack of sound so potent it blackened the place with something richer than hate.

Too old for dolls. Too ill for tablets.

Shush – it’s silent time again.

I’ll be your friend until you find a better one.

Sometimes you simply made the wrong choice and you had to live with it. You could only change the future.

In reality nobody can grasp anything permanently in life. Absolutely nothing. Somethings may stay in memory for a while but eventually that too fades away.

Think long and hard about how you proceed, Nico di Angelo. You cannot lie to Cupid. If you let your anger rule you... well, your fate will be even sadder then mine.

Of all parts of wisdom the practice is the best.

I hope that I can maintain my skating as long as possible.

Hi, I'm a hero, but I can't tell you why. It's classified.

One of the remarkable things about my career is that it has been marked by steady, incremental progress. No sudden spikes up, and no sudden downfalls, either.

It's not what you are, it's what you don't become that hurts.

I'd really love to live in New York for awhile. That's what I'm hoping to do.

I thought he wanted it, anyway," I say. "Not like this," Haymitch says. "He wanted it to be real.