But then, maybe “I don’t believe in you” is the cruelest way to kill a monster.

I collected pictures and I drew pictures and I looked at the pictures by myself. And because no one else ever saw them, the pictures were perfect and true. They were alive.

I know of witches who whistle at different pitches, calling things that don't have names.

She looked at the last thing she had written and she felt calm. Then she crossed the words out vehemently, scribbling until even the shape of the sentence was destroyed.

In your life, always be like a driver who runs the car not just a car.

The greatest right in the world is the right to be wrong.

I adore imaginary monsters, but I am terrified of real ones.

Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth.

What will be / the sacred words?

He [Barack Obama] might have a pen, and he might have a phone, but what he does not have is the constitutional power to run this country like a dictator.

The allure of military life and its heroic promise seem indestructible, but nothing threatens the romance of war more effectively than war itself.

You mean a bad heel?" I said. "Couldn't I just, like, wear something besides sandals? No offense." -Percy

Luke Jermay is as devious as he's clever, and he's a Master at complication - with this take on TTTCBE he might just fool the Devil.

A lot of people play to impress, but the really gifted ones play to move. That's the greatest point of ever doing this.