It's terrible to have to depend on someone else.

I know family comes first, but shouldn't that mean after breakfast?

I don't know if you have noticed this, but it is quite possible for two human beings to have a conversation in which one or both parties involved has absolutely no idea what they're talking about.

No big deal. We all have blood in us, the trick is keeping it inside.

Nothing in life is fair. Fair is a dirty word and I'll thank you not to use that language around me.

Life's only obligation, afterall, was to be interesting.

I often find myself in situations where it seems to me like everyone else has read the instruction book

But as I have noticed on more than one occaision, life itself is unfair, and there is no complaint department, so we might as well accept things the way they happen, clean up the mess, and move on.

And I was having too much fun to stop now.

you can’t use logic on human behavior.

Our universe is ruled by random whim, inhabited by people who laugh at logic.

Every time I annoy him he retreats into his No Mundanes Allowed tree house." Simon pointed at Jace.

The strong take from the weak. That’s what power is for.

A man is no more than breath until his breath fashions the words that others cannot forget.

There is still that singular perfection, and it's perfect in part because it seemed, at the time, so clearly to promise more.

One may as well be asleep as to read for anything but to improve his mind and morals, and regulate his conduct.

I have heard earnest American sociologists say that American children have a right to the divorce experience as an enriching element of an advanced civilisation.

What once was cuddled must learn to kiss The cold wonn's mouth. That's all the mystery.

I was not put here to be a background character in someone else's movie!

Even when there are times that we're not happy, happiness will creep in.

I had been in the hurrying waters too long not to appreciate an opportunity to lie on the bank and rest, watch others, and gain strength for the coming years.