I haven't believed in magic because I don't believe in anything that I haven't seen with my own eyes. Therefore, I must go to Paelsia as soon as I can and learn the truth for myself

Then his heart, now broken into a thousand pieces, slowly began to turn to ice.

I think most are too afraid to see the truth.

There was no hope in death, only an end.

If every mortal looks at others as their friends, not as their enemies, the world would be a much better place, wouldn't it?

One could get bored even with beauty when one was constantly surrounded by it.

Evil is a choice one makes, not a natural state of being.

Believe in magic. Believe in the impossible

But there was nothing else she could be right now except strong.

I believe we make our own destinies, every last one of us.

You must continue to believe with all your heart. Sometimes belief is all if takes to make something real.

Do the children who prefer books set in the real, ordinary, workaday world ever read as obsessively as those who would much rather be transported into other worlds entirely?

What a mess you’ve made of the simplest of subjects, Della.

We always look behind, through, and beyond ourselves, never within.

The golden age is before us, not behind us.

I'm my own worst critic, and if I don't pull off what I think I wanted to do in my head, then I won't be a happy girl.

I want to point the way to something that should forever lure them, when the TV set is broken and the movie is over and the school bell has rung for the last time.

In Goya's greatest scenes we seem to see the people of the world exactly at the moment when they first attained the title of 'suffering humanity

Remember that whatever knowledge you do not solidly lay the foundation of before you are eighteen, you will never be master of while you breathe.

Death is the stone into which our oblivion hardens.

Whoever finds love beneath hurt and grief disappears into emptiness with a thousand new disguises