As for Ellai, she told her sister what had passed, and Nitid wept, and her tears fell to earth and became chimaera, children of regret...

She moved like a poem and smiled like a sphinx.

Hope can be a powerful force. Maybe there's no actual magic in it, but when you know what you hope for most and hold it like a light within you, you can make things happen, almost like magic.

I know it's not easy for you, living this life, but try to remember, always try to remember, you're not the only one with troubles.

Creamy and leggy, with long azure hair and the eyes of a silent-movie star, she moved like a poem and smiled like a sphinx.

...something was starting to take shape, out of magic and will. Smoke and bone.

Did you know that mako shark fetuses eat each other in the womb?... Its true. Only cannibal fetuses survive to be born. Can you imagine if people were like that?

And just so you know, the invaders are always the bad guys. Always.

And they were quiet but their blood and nerves and butterflies were not—they were rampantly alive, rushing and thrumming in a wild and perfect melody, matched note for note.

Because hope comes from in you, and wishes are just magic.

My tiny scary friend is coming

Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences.

Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired.

I'm pleased the committee recommended no action, as I know I did nothing wrong.

There's nothing better for hosting a show than a bunch of people daytime-whiskey drunk.

Don't try to be original; just try to be good.

Let us hope, I prayed, that a kind Providence will put a speedy end to the acts of God under which we have been laboring.

I've had an exciting time; I married for love and got a little money along with it.

Who says the eternal being does not exist? Who says the sun has gone out? Someone who climbs up on the roof and closes his eyes tight, and says, I don't see anything.

A thing's innate disposition does not lie.

Talent can't be taught, but it can be awakened.