A realization that even if you had discovered the future, it really didn't change how you lived in the present. They were truth, but they weren't all the truth.

When Gansey was polite, it made him powerful. When Adam was polite, he was giving power away.

Gansey had once told Adam that he was afraid most people didn't know how to handle Ronan. What he meant by this was that he was worried that one day someone would fall on Ronan and cut themselves.

Don't panic. Are you sitting? You probably don't need to sit. Well, possibly. At least lean on something.

Ronan didn't need physics. He could intimidate even a piece of plywood into doing what he wanted.

His heart hurt with the wanting of it, the hurt no less painful for being difficult to explain.

If I were a tree, I would have no reason to love a human.

Ronan said, "I'm always straight."Adam replied "Oh, man, that's the biggest lie you've ever told.

Is this thing safe?""Safe as life, " Gansey replied.

We have to be back in three hours, " Ronan said. "I just fed Chainsaw but she'll need it again.""This, " Gansey replied "is precisely why I didn't want to have a baby with you.

Fate, " Blue replied, glowering at her mother, "is a very weighty word to throw around before breakfast.

Value what you have today, Rather than pricing it later....

The apprehension of... values is intuitive; but it is not a built-in intuition, not something with which one is born. Intuition in art is actually the result of... prolonged tuition.

After the 1984 Summer Olympics, Reagan wanted to add the U.S. volleyball team to his Cabinet. He figured if they can't shove his programs down Congress' throat, nobody can.

Most power is power to coerce somebody. We don't have the power to coerce anybody.

Our stares connected and we were quiet for a long minute, united by our misery. At least he understood me and I understood him. "A fine pair we make,” he said. "Yeah.

Let us be clear about one thing: The tea party movement is not seeking a junior partnership with the Republican Party, but a hostile takeover of it.

I think that creativity depends on having sufficient indeterminacy around for a new pattern to arise up within it.

Freedom of speech is useless without freedom of thought.

All children... feel a demonic sympathy with those things that cause disorder in the grown-up world.