You know, ' he said, the condition of sourness--or monstrousness, as you might call it--doesn't have to be permanent.'P189

It's hard to know what's right in this life, ' she said. 'We do what we can, but what we really need is mercy. Do you know who taught me that?' A grin. 'You.'"P459

Yeah, well, we're all afraid." I sighed. "The angry more than most, I think.

Freedom. He offered it like someone who didn't know what it meant, someone who had never had it taken away."pg 185

I know what it is to become something you hate, I know how it hurts. But life is full of hurt. And your capacity for baring it is much greater than you believe."pg 287

What a person did when they were in pain said a lot about them.pg 459

Soft hearts make the universe worth living in.

There is an art to Noavek bullshit, " Cyra said as she muted the feed. "We're taught it from birth.

I didn't scream I wasn't afraid. I knew I was strong enough to survive it all.

Honor, ” I said with a snort. “Honor has no place in survival.

The scars on her face said something different about her, too-that she, like Cyra, knew what she was risking when she risked her life."pg 337

Then I turned, and lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and beheld a flying roll.

God has editing rights over our prayers. He will... edit them correct them bring them in line with His will and then hand them back to us to be resubmitted.

Do not wait for the Last Judgment. It takes place every day.

You get thought of in terms of your last job. So if my last job is that of a meat cleaver-wielding character, I will hardly be cast as some benign, older gentleman.

I'm really happiest living life 22 pages at a time and putting things in little boxes on pages.

You will be fierce. You will fearless. And you will make work you know in your heart is not as good as you want it to be.

We shape our life by deciding to pay attention to it. It is the direction of our attention and its intensity that will determines what we accomplish and how well.

We must be lovers, and at once the impossible becomes possible.

Don't be told something is impossible. There's always a way.

Art begins when an observer's sensibilities engage with the understatements of a calculating craftsman.