Madness is a kind of mental suicide.

Quiet people have the loudest minds.

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

The water was glassy and calm, still candy-colored in the afterglow of sunset.

A life without love is like a tree without fruit.

The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

Outside, daylight was bleeding slowly toward dusk.

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad.

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there... and still on your feet.

Many years ago, I left my home country very narrow minded. Today I return with an educated mind, able to understand why my culture is as it is and still be very proud of it.

Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.

We argued about how hard it would be to ride a bear, assuming said bear was muzzled.

Then I kissed Max because I loved him, and everyone I had ever loved before had gone away and I had never kissed them goodbye

I moved to London with this really warped sense of expectation.

Little girls are taught to be dependent, incapable of valuing themselves in many aspects of their daily lives.

It is not birth, marriage, or death, but gastrulation which is truly the most important time in your life.

In matters of government, justice means force as well as virtue.

I'm a big girl, Finn.