Mom actually said that?" Cassie's face shown with happiness. "She always hated my math!

Kate felt very offended. 'I am not an elf,' she insisted. 'I'm an Englishwoman!

For how many generations now had his people been turning their backs on things? How long had they sat in their living rooms and watched other people die?

Lively, intelligent, and quite immature, [Emily] usually burst out with exactly the comment that summed up the situation beautifully and therefore could never in politeness be said.

Em, I am trying to have an important conversation!" shouted Seylin. "I will not change into a cat!

Kate had never in her life seen such frightful deformities, and the goblins had never seen such a hideous dress.

Being a writer means crying over the sad parts, even though you already know it’s going to be okay.

Forks are absurd, he scoffed. They insult your food. They make it think you're killing it twice.

Don't fret. We'll just have to find something else you're good at besides killing people.

Time didn't heal, but it anesthetized. The human mind could only feel so much.

Even if things do not work out as you thought they should for you, they do - in their own way, as they were meant to.

Elsewhere is within

Insofar we are death-bound, existence is urgent and frightful. Insofar as are groundless, it is vertiginous and dreamlike. Insofar as we are insatiable, it is unquiet and tormented.

You're going to have to find out where you want to go. And then you've got to start going there.

It is vain for the coward to flee death follows close behind it is only by defying it that the brave escape.

You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won't be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.

Love alone is never a good enough reason to marry.

The basis of peace and stability, in any society, has to be the fullest respect for the human rights of all its people.

Such as are thy habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of thy mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.