And that's what love is, I suppose. The one thing that is most worth hoping for, and the one thing that's most surprising when it lands. Because it's better. It exceeds hope, makes hope nearsighted.

I had a lump in my throat the size of a bundt cake pan.

For at eight o’clock the world came to an end. It was reading time. The hours between eight in the evening and one or two in the morning have always been my magic hours.

That night, in the dark, dressed to kill, I lost my life—and became twenty forever.

If a listener nods his head when you're explaining your program, wake him up.

Temporize not! It is always injurious.

Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge

Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.

To defy the laws of tradition is a crusade only of the brave.

At the door to the helicopter, Gansey looked bad over his shoulder at them, his smile complicated when he saw them holding hands.

You can't comfort the afflicted with afflicting the comfortable.

One might say that science itself, and civilization and art, are all about different orderings of the world - to contain it, and to make it in some sense intelligible, communicable. And bearable.