Don't fret. We'll just have to find something else you're good at besides killing people.

Kate felt very offended. 'I am not an elf,' she insisted. 'I'm an Englishwoman!

For how many generations now had his people been turning their backs on things? How long had they sat in their living rooms and watched other people die?

Lively, intelligent, and quite immature, [Emily] usually burst out with exactly the comment that summed up the situation beautifully and therefore could never in politeness be said.

Em, I am trying to have an important conversation!" shouted Seylin. "I will not change into a cat!

Kate had never in her life seen such frightful deformities, and the goblins had never seen such a hideous dress.

Being a writer means crying over the sad parts, even though you already know it’s going to be okay.

Forks are absurd, he scoffed. They insult your food. They make it think you're killing it twice.

Mom actually said that?" Cassie's face shown with happiness. "She always hated my math!

Confident in spirit, courageous in soul.

And, suddenly, as if her head cleared, she was quite sure that wonderful things did indeed exist. Even if they're only in my own mind, she thought, they're there and worth fighting for.

I have never met a person who didn’t have problems of some kind. This is why we need one another’s encouragement.

Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.

Rationalism is an adventure in the clarification of thought.

I am pleased that God made my skin black - but I wish He had made it thicker.

Often, problems are knots with many strands, and looking at those strands can make a problem seem different.

The economy is rigged in favor of those at the top.

A nation that encourages its people to spend more and save less promotes economic backwardness, social decay and its own financial doom.

Women will work out their destinies — much better, too, than men can ever do for them. All the mischief to women has come because men undertook to shape the destiny of women.