How acutely sometimes the presence or absence of people mattered

Location: Amsterdam, Where Fire Is Called "Vlam

I'm not good at love. I'm like a barbed creature. I push everyone I love away.

When a monster stopped behaving like a monster, did it stop being a monster? Did it become something else?

The only way for you to keep your mind straight is to run from those who would confuse you.

I don't want to love you if you're only going to die.

He considered her seriously. "Well. And that's easy," he said. "My Grace will protect me from him, And I'll protect you. You'll be safe with me, Katsa.

I'm not such a bad fighter myself," Skye said. Po exploded with laughter. "Oh, fight him, Katsa. Please fight him. I can't imagine a more entertaining diversion.

Your eyes are beautiful," he said, and she felt warm suddenly, warm in the sun that dappled through the treetops and rested on them in patches.

Wonderful," Garan grumbled when he'd gone. "We'll grow a reputation for our kindness to lawbreakers.

Every configuration of people is an entirely new universe unto itself.

We are wasting our youth holding cold devices while we should be holding one another’s warm hands.

Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight.

The person who knows HOW will always have a job. The person who knows WHY will always be his boss.

The greatest pleasure is obtained by improving.

Truth comes to us from the past, as gold is washed down from the mountains of Sierra Nevada, in minute but precious particles, and intermixed with infinite alloy, the debris of the centuries.

Fidelity to the subject's thought and to his characteristic way of expressing himself is the sine qua non of journalistic quotation.

If money or military might would change that part of the world... we would have done it by now. Enough is enough.

Her mind is a bird that's trapped inside her skull, flapping and thrashing, never breaking free.

I like watching a man boss everybody around. It's so sexy

I write fiction, there's no guarantee that what I say is truthful.