It snowed right before Jack stopped talking to Hazel, fluffy white flakes big enough to show their crystal architecture, like perfect geometric poems.

She understood. They were plastic flowers of words—but they looked nice on the surface.

This is what it is to live in the world. You have to give yourself over to the cold, at least a little bit.

In woods where the woodsmen told lies, maybe it was the wolves who told the truth.

Her father said she was a princess. He did not see that she was a brave knight.

Kids can handle a lot more than you think they can. It's when they get to be grown up that you have to start worrying.

Sometimes superheroes are born, sometimes they are made. Sometimes they make themselves. Sometimes all it takes is will.

She just eyed them coolly, as if they were nothing to her, as if their nothingness surprised and slightly repelled her.

His words sounded foolish to his own ears. He was not impressive. He was small like the world.

At each step there is a small moment of transformation that cannot be overlooked or rushed. And these moments should not be, because they are beautiful.

He's gone now. He did something terrible, but...he did good things, too. And he kept us well. And it's all right if you are sad.

The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.

I would rather die on my feet than continue living on my knees.

There is a popular conception about karma, and that is that as you sow, so shall you reap. That's only true if you're a farmer.

The internet must be used to maximise open communication and we should encourage the expansion of its use.

Everytime I look at a zebra, I can't figure out whether it's black with white stripes or white with black stripes, and that frustrates me.

Love...is the immovability of truth.

I think the education I've had as an actor I would never have had at university.

Usually, you don't really end up lifelong buddies with your co-stars.

Either an executive can do his job or he can't.

You cannot undo the past; you can only learn to live with it, find some way of making peace with it, and move on.