We're cool, " I say calmly, although I feel something else. I feel... sad. Like I've lost something I never quite had.

Happiness is based on a just discrimination of what is necessary, what is neither necessary nor destructive, and what is destructive

Books were a safe place, a world apart from my own. No matter what had happened that day, that year, there was always a story in which someone overcame their darkest hour. I wasn't alone.

Our calling is connected to our area of dominion.

When you can state the theme of a story, when you can separate it from the story itself, then you can be sure the story is not a very good one.

It is good insofar as it is not evil.

The persuasion of a friend is a strong thing.

You are mine, Aisling. You are mine today, tomorrow and five hundred years from now. You will always be mine. I do not give up my treasures, kincsem. You would do well to remember that.

Growth provides novel experiences for youth; decay the same, alas, for age.

Dignity and majesty have I seen but once, as it stood in chains, at midnight, in a dungeon in an obscure village of Missouri.