Truths are dangerous, " he said."Then why are you writing them in a book?""To catch them between the pages, " said Teddy, "and trap them before they disappear.

Every configuration of people is an entirely new universe unto itself.

Katsa and Po were trying to drown each other and, judging from their hoots of laughter, enjoying it immensely.

Sneaking was a kind of deceit. So was disguise. Just past midnight, wearing dark trousers and Fox's hood, the queen snuck out of her own rooms and stepped into a world of stories and lies.

I don't understand your book. Isn't every book a book of words?

Our own story is even more important for us to know than history.

Only a person with the true heart of a dictionary-writer would be lying in bed, three days after being stabbed in the gut, worrying about his P's.

But that's how memory works, " Bitterblue said quietly. "Things disappear without your permission, then come back again without your permission." And sometimes they came back incomplete and warped.

That's interesting, " Bitterblue said. "You think a conscience requires fear?

It was starting to seem to her that being "forward-thinking" too often involved avoiding any kind of thought at all - especially about things that might benefit from a great deal of thinking.

I want to have the heart and mind of a queen, ” she whispered. “I want it more than anything. But I’m only pretending. I can’t find the feeling of it inside

Make no judgments where you have no compassion.

It is a clumsy experiment to make; for it involves the destruction of the very consciousness which puts the question and awaits the answer.

I'm in an absolute frenzy towards doing as many things as I can that I want to do today. The rest can wait till tomorrow, next week, if I'm around we'll take a look.

I don't, consciously anyways, sort of listen to things with the idea of getting something from them that I can use.

It was clear to me, as I glanced back over my earlier life, that a loving Providence watched over me, that all was directed for me by a higher power.

A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you.

Do what you have to do until you can do what you want to do.

My experience with Khonsu had taught me not be greedy about time. It was best to appreciate what you had and not yearn for more.

With Eclipse, I felt like I was doing a completely different movie and a completely different character. So, yeah, it was nice and challenging.

Practice works because practice gives us a chance to relax enough to make smart choices.