I promise, Matthias. I'll take you home.""Nina, " he said, pressing her hand to his heart. "I am already home.

Sometimes scientific discoveries are like that […]. Once people know something is possible, the pace of new findings increases. (Wylan)

Fear is a phoenix. You can watch it burn a thousand times and still it will return.

Nina would never let Kaz abandon her. She'd fight with everything she had to free Inej even if she was still in the grips of Parem. Matthias would stand by her with that great heart full of honor.

Nina was about to snap that she didn't appreciate the sarcasm when she saw the expression on his face. He looked like someone had just given him a tuba full of puppies.

If you don't care about money, Nina dear, call it by its other names.""Kruge? Scrub? Kaz's one true love?""Freedom, security, retribution.

Her heart felt too full, a dry creek bed ill-prepared for such rain.

You don't ask for forgiveness, Kaz. You earn it.

She rested her head on his shoulder. "You're better than waffles, Matthias Helvar." A small smile curled the Fjerdan's lips. "Let's not say things we don't mean, my love.

Sometimes, the only way to get justice is to take it for yourself.

i prefer to think of the good times. Like when you held my hair as I was vomiting into a bucket.

We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs.

Read obsessively. It will make you a better human and a better writer.

When I was growing up, I never heard anyone pray, "Give me this day my daily bread." It was always, "Give us this day our daily bread." That stuck. We're all in this together.

In vocal prayer we go to God on foot. In meditation we go to God on horseback. In contemplation we go to God in a jet.

I'm not the beautiful one.

Audiences in every medium are becoming far more savvy. No one goes to watch a Tom Cruise movie any more just because it's starring Tom Cruise.

The report of my illness grew out of his (James Clemens) illness. The report of my death was an exaggeration.

I can honestly say - and it's a big surprise to me - that I have never had a dream about being on the moon.

The cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream.

Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.