For in every adult there dwells the child that was, and in every child there lies the adult that will be.

We are not meant to know the time or the nature of our deaths (for all of us secretly hope that we may be immortal).

He had quite liked the dwarfs. He often had no idea what they were talking about, but for a group of homicidal, class-obsessed small people, they were really rather good fun.

He became merely the broken statue of a beast, now without another's fear to animate it.

Once upon a time – for that is how all stories should begin – there was a boy who lost his mother.

My feelings for Raphael are mine, and mine alone. I loved him, and that is all anyone needs to know. The rest is no business of any man's.

Unless you know the code, it has no meaning.

And, in the darkness, David closed his eyes as all that was lost was found again.

These were the tales that echoed in the head long after the books that contained them were cast aside.

The stories in books hate the stories contained in newspapers.

Story!" The dwarf snorted. "You'll be talking about "happily ever after" next. Do we look happy? There's no happily ever after for us. Miserabily ever after, more like.

…because he was far more interested in allowing his disciples to cultivate a relationship and trust with and in him than leading them to a place of "arrival".

I am emotional about engines, if you hurt my car, you hurt my heart.

The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.

I'll never forget my little city! I could talk a whole day about it!

I made a fairly bold pledge that I wanted Virginia to be the energy capital of the East Coast.

Good enough is good enough. We're not supposed to be perfect. We're supposed to be complete.

I am naturally a thin person and I am 5'1" and putting on five or 10 pounds, that looks like a lot on me.

With skin, I really believe it has a lot to do with your genes. And I've been really lucky.

Don’t ever fight with Lisbeth Salander. Her attitude towards the rest of the world is that if someone threatens her with a gun, she’ll get a bigger gun.