Let me get you all some punch,” I said. “You're leaving us?” said Isabel, sounding panicky. “I'll be right back,” I promised. “If anyone comes near you, just scream and run.

But chance runs like a river through all our lives, and being prepared for surprise is the best we can do.

If my heart were a compass, you'd be North.

You're like something drawn with the sun's fire, and I can take only little glimpses of you.

There is a passion in you that scares me.

The preface? Why would he waste time with the preface? Skip the preface and move on to the meat of the thing!

You see, when medicine works, it is blessed science, and when it fails, it is witchcraft. - Polidori

It was as though, in one moment, he had become a stranger. And I a stranger to myself.

The world of 'The Hunger Games' is a paranoid survivalist's dream.

You can't eat [literature], that's the problem," he said. "I've tried, it's very dry, and not at all nutritious.

Here's all I know: that the world is uncontrollable. Chaos reigns. That anything and everything might be possible. I won't subscribe to any rational system again. Nothing will bind me.

In your anger, zip your lips!

Sorry I'm late, I'm afraid I got lost on the path of life

The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.

Be sober be vigilant because your adversary the devil as a roaring lion walketh about seeking whom he may devour.

Don't rely on leaders to do things you're equipped to do yourself.

Because make no mistake, Serena. I do bite. ~Wraith

I have an implicit faith ... that mankind can only be saved through non-violence, which is the central teaching of the Bible, as I have understood the Bible.

My heart is broken,” she goes. “It’s turned to a piece of stone. I’m no good. That’s what’s as bad as anything, that I’m no good anymore.

The ability to manage well doesn't make much difference if you're not even in the right jungle.

Christ is lovely, Christ is very lovely, Christ is most lovely, Christ is always lovely, Christ is altogether lovely.