Hope is often bitter, but it drives us, and we cling.

Not all of our heartless plans work as we intend; nor do all of our good intentions. We are where we are, and we can rarely predict where we will go, no matter how firm our beliefs.

I'm missing something, aren't I?" "Brains", he snapped. "And survival instinct. The Hawklord's been waiting for you for three hours." "Tell him I'm dead.

Maybe home is something we have to make, and remake, over and over.

What humans do when they're desperate is just an expression of fear. What they do when they feel safe is a better indication of whether or not you can trust them.

Truth, like beauty, is in the eyes of the beholder.

We all fail. But none of us fail all the time.

Kaylin is not known for her punctuality. She is known, in fact, for her lack--even by those outside of the Hawklord's command.

Success and failure are two edges of the same blade, two sides of the same coin. To fear one is to forever deny the possibility of the other.

The truth was only another mask, even if it was the best fit, the closest to skin and all that lay beneath

The look he gave her made her turn away for a moment. Sometimes you couldn’t look too closely at another person’s pain.

Nobody seems to care that with every push to live up to their expectations, my own dreams vaporize.

I've never kissed an art forger before" Lord Huntington to Eliza Somerton in "An Artful Seduction

I'm very happy with my body.

It is right that what is just should be obeyed. It is necessary that what is strongest should be obeyed.

I've been lucky to have a lot of opportunities to help people.

After two world wars, the collapse of fascism, nazism, communism and colonialism and the end of the cold war, humanity has entered a new phase of its history.

Being selfish to me means that you have to look out for yourself and you don't have to sacrifice.

Tug looked nervously at his master. Horses aren't supposed to fly, he seemed to be saying.

Milton has carefully marked in his Satan the intense selfishness, the alcohol of egotism, which would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven.

Another symptom of progress toward the Singularity: ideas themselves should spread ever faster, and even the most radical will quickly become commonplace.