It's our choices that matter in the end. Not wishes, not words, not promises.

—the longer you silence a violin, the harder it is for it to find its true voice again.

Free the fire fluttering inside her rib cage. Work her muscles, the bow, the violin, until she played herself to ash and embers and left the rest of the world behind to smolder.

She imagined she could taste the storm in him, the battering winds of desperation and frustration that met her own, blow for blow.

Half-truths only added up to a whole lie.

For the longest time, I saw them as the end of my journey, but now I think they were always meant to represent the beginning of yours.

He said he'd never remarry, because he'd never find another lady that fit so neatly at his side. He called her his equal in spirit.

What good is honour when greed eats away at its foundations?

Who could be satisfied with seeking out the four corners of one small world, when there was the whole of time to be had?

Only ignorance excuses stupidity

What was the power that turned the worm into a moth? It was greater than any power the Builders had had, he was sure of that. The power that ran the city of Ember was feeble by comparison...

Folks do not want to see a body disappear before their very eyes. Not me at least.

Was it always my nature to take a bad time and block out the good times until any success became an accident and failure seemed the only truth?

When you are doing stand-up comedy, you are the writer, producer, director, sometimes bouncer.

Kids haven't changed - you have.

I'm a pollster by trade, so I'm into things that are actually quantifiable.

We should take astrology seriously. No, I don't mean we should believe in it. I am talking about fighting it seriously instead of humouring it as a piece of harmless fun.

There's a difference between, you know, God loves unconditionally in my feeling and religion loves conditionally. Religion spends an awful lot of time dictating who God can love and can't love.