When you're a monster, you are thanked and praised for not being a monster.

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.

Power resides where men believe it resides. A very small man can cast a very large shadow.

Your character determines how many followers you will have.

The role of an orchestra in the 21st century isn't just playing, it's about developing future audiences and performers.

I'm not always a heartbroken guy. I like to laugh, act silly, dance. There are so many more colors to me. I really can be fun.

When it's over you look up: the world looks the same but you are somehow different and that feeling lingers for days.

We only really, deeply consider what our life is when we're faced with mortality on some level.

The players are looking forward to it because they'd like revenge

[the downfall of our political system is the] buying and selling of politicians...bribery. In the private sector, you're arrested for it. In the public sector, it's the norm.

In the cherry blossom's shade there's no such thing as a stranger.

The nearest figure to myself would be Shakespeare.