Would that the dead were not dead! But there is grass that must be eaten, pellets that must be chewed, hraka that must be passed, holes that must be dug, sleep that must be slept.

They're all so much afraid of the Council that they're not afraid of anything else.

A thing can be true and still be desperate folly, Hazel.

My heart has joined the Thousand, for my friend stopped running today.

You can't call your life your own: and in return you have safety, if it's worth having at the price you pay.

You know how you let yourself think that everything will be alright if you can only go to certain place or do a certain thing. But when you get there you find it's not that simple.

Many human beings say that they enjoy the winter, but what they really enjoy is feeling proof against it.

[One} who does not know when a gift has made him safe is poorer than a slug, even though he may think otherwise himself.

You're trying to eat grass that isn't there. Why don't you give it a chance to grow?

Stubbs may have envisaged the skeleton inside the horse, but most of us do not

Bigwig: "I can't think why he didn't convince Threarah."Hazel: "Because Threarah doesn't like anything he hasn't thought of for himself.

It's paradoxical that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn't appeal to anyone.

Every sin can be forgiven by the heavenly Father.

...if you smile for no reason at all you will actually start to feel happy

Yes. Loving somebody isn't a one time thing, its an everyday thing. Something you do to them, with them, for them. Because of them. Every day, all day. And night." ~Solomon~

If you attack the establishment long enough and hard enough, they will make you a member of it.

I was on the central table and we were a very intimate group.

Hustle, Loyalty, Respect.

Getting married is very much like going to a restaurant with friends. You order what you want then when you see what the other person has, you wish you had ordered that.

I've never been ambitious.

I'd love to go to school and have a normal life, but I don't see any professor at Yale being able to teach me more than Steven Spielberg.