I didn't want to see you." "They told me." "I was afraid that I'd still love you." "I hoped that you would.

Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.

In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.

I've lived too long with pain. I won't know who I am without it

Ender Wiggin must believe that no matter what happens, no adult will ever, ever step in to help him in any way.

I need you to be clever, Bean. I need you to think of solutions to problems we haven't seen yet. I want you to try things that no one has ever tried because they're absolutely stupid.

Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.

We're like the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, then eat the little brats alive.

Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.

There's only one thing that will make them stop hating you. And that's being so good at what you do that they can't ignore you

There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane.

The key to your heart should be held by the One who made it.

Everything you desire is always just outside your comfort zone, dear boy. If it wasn't you would already possess it, would you not?

Who would vandalize a doghouse? I ask."Cats?" Bee suggests.

Troops of heroes undistinguished die.

I really would have liked to love, but I didnt trust myself to allow it.

My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar

If the book is a mystery to its author as she's writing, inevitably it's going to be a mystery to the reader as he or she reads it.

I tried to take heavy metal... and balled it up and chopped it in half and really tried to create a new form of energy. I really tried to re-shape extreme music as I see it through my eyes.

When you know a person particularly well, you cannot escape their ruffled feelings.

Difference between motivation and inspiration - Motivation is external and short lived. Inspiration is internal and lifelong