If you want, I can carry you—” “I’m fine, ” she said shortly. “Let’s go.”He’d said that wrong. He should have said, “I want to carry you.

This wasn't Weirdville, this was fricking Wonderland. Alice here was all grow up, but she was still chowing down on too much of that psychedelic mushroom.

I’m going to carry you now, ” he told her, “so we can move even faster. I’m not asking you, I’m telling you. Any response from you is unnecessary and unwelcome.

You know, Savannah, if you cry, I won’t tell anyone, ’ Ken said quietly. ‘I promise.

Look after goodness and truth, beauty will look after herself.

At the end of the race nobody really cares about how you started, so stay laser focused and finish strong. Get ready to proclaim "I did it!

I've always traveled, as a kid my parents moved me around, a different place in Germany every four years. But I got the travel bug when I was a kid, living in different countries.

I think of how perhaps the best way to fly would be with hands full of earth, so you always remember where you came from.

If you want something, go get it. Period.

We just want to walk. Our legs need to move to keep our minds from collapsing.

Actually, I'm addicted to science fiction. Let me make my diction clear - I love sci-fi.

I know that being positive is a choice, and I try to make that choice every day.

I don't know if I have any regrets, I have had a pretty successful life. I have learned good, bad, and ugly.

I may well do some more polemical writing, if a subject that fires me up comes along. Apart from that possibility, I would like to continue to tell stories so long as I have stories to tell.