It is not about striving for immortality, but about accepting mortality.

What's life without a little risk?

It is not our abilities that show what we truly are. It is our choices.

We've all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's who we really are.

Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.

It is our choices... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.

The world is full of wonderful things you haven't seen yet. Don't ever give up on the chance of seeing them.

There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction; the moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.

Gryffindor, where dwell the brave at heart!

Twilight fell: The sky turned to a light, dusky purple littered with tiny silver stars.

Ahhh, teaching literature. A noble calling! For we are all stories.

Anyaele Sam Chiyson Leadership Law of Reproduction: Distinguished leaders impress, inspire and invest in other leaders.

You don’t like what you see out your window, you put up a wall.

All Medicines are poisons, and all poisons should be looked at for medicinal properties.

I love the process of creating a character; someone entirely different from myself, and depicting it, either on stage or screen.

It is useless to dabble in beauty. One must be utterly devoted to beauty, with every nerve of the body.

A married man with a family will do anything for money.

Do not speak unless you can improve the silence.

Do you love him?" Deryn swallowed, then pointed at the screen. "He makes me feel like that. Like flying.

Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.