A person who doesn't learn from the past is an idiot, in my estimation.

Quiet people have the loudest minds.

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

The water was glassy and calm, still candy-colored in the afterglow of sunset.

A life without love is like a tree without fruit.

The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

Outside, daylight was bleeding slowly toward dusk.

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad.

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there... and still on your feet.

Failure, to me, is not having the desire to try. Having the desire to try is in it own way success.

(Jace) "Is there anything special you want to see? Paris? Budapest? The Leaning Tower of Pisa?" Only if it falls on Sebastian's head, she thought.

Claims like 'Slavery is wrong' are not fully common-sensical, so they must be at least partly theoretical.

I think the first wisdom is to restrain the tongue.

Before you leave, the fortune teller reminds you that the future is never set in stone.

One thing you can't do with babies, you can't give them steak.

The theater, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history.

We are blessed and sustained by what is not said

Working with cool people helps when working with few shots. You trust yourself and them.

There's a lot of sensuality that I associate with travel. And that's romance.