He had a prince's looks but a pirate's eyes.

Because people are more than emotions. People have thoughts and reasons for doing things.

If there was no fear, how could there be comfort? Or courage?

And it's always better, isn't it, when you discover answers on your own?

Fall off your own roof.

She’d fallen into a deep silence once, when the sun appeared, and it was then he’d wondered most what she was thinking.

His hand snapped shut over the device and then he crossed his arms. Aria stared in horror. Her Smarteye was buried in a Neanderthal’s armpit.

Her hand holding his for a dozen paces. His, resting on the small of her back for a moment. Touches that had no real purpose but to say I’m here and We are together still.

Without thinking, he reached for her hand. Tucked it against her chest, feeling that was where it should be. Perry's heart slammed against his ribs. She had to feel it.

She'd survived the outside. She'd survived the Aether and cannibals and wolves. She knew how to love now, and how to let go. Whatever came next, she would survive it, too

She found it curious and frightening that she could deeply dislike someone she didn’t even know. It wasn’t her. At least, it wasn’t how she used to be.

He caught me up on wings of light, and showed me the realms of his creation, the glittering gemstones paving his heaven. He left my body weak and spent, my spirit gorged with honey.

My feathered friends were so much to me that I am constantly tempted to make this sketch of my first years a book about birds and little else.

Mentors turn into tormentors if they believe they are always right.

The mainstream is always under attack.

I only tour in short bursts, I'm only ever away from my family and three daughters for a month or two.

There's no one more obnoxious and self-righteous than the self-made man. And no one more admirable.

Smart men walked on the moon, daring men walked on the ocean floor, but wise men walk with God.

People like death and mayhem.

I met the oddest little fellow today, Alan of Trebond.

There is no effort without error or shortcoming.