Names have power... And he kept the one I gave him. My dear, sweet Jackaby. - Eleanor

The trick about falling is to catch yourself before you hit the dirt.

The greatest figures in history are never the ones who avoid failure, but those who march chin-up through countless failures, one after the next, until they come upon the occasional victory.

Monsters are easy, Miss Rook. They're monsters. But a monster in a suit? That's basically just a wicked man, and a wicked man is a more dangerous thing by far.

I read the first few, " said Jackaby. "I've instructed my duck to just file the rest directly under P. I left it to him to decide if that was for politics or paranoia.

We are not the policy department, except for those of us who are, " Jackaby revised.

All due respect to Romeo and Juliet, but I don’t think love is sacrifice at all. Real love is when you let another person make you better. You don’t lose yourself in love—you find yourself there.

I whispered across the bars to Jackaby as I rose, "Shall I tell them the truth?""Have you killed anyone?" he asked, quietly."No, of course not!""Then I can't imagine why you shouldn't.

To the attention of the New Fiddleham Police Department: You've got my middle-C, and I would like it back....Please return Jackaby's tuning fork. He's getting even more obnoxious than usual.

I had heard of offices feeling like prisons, but in this case our prison felt, rather anticlimactically, like an office.

While the club-kid lifestyle might’ve once appealed to him, after he discovered even drugs wouldn’t dull his sharpened reality, he went into each round cold.

You don't have to be age 20 and size zero to be sexually viable or viable as a woman.

I am a Patsy Cline fan.

I just feel like, if I drink, I want to drink a case of beer and not two beers. Two beers doesn't do anything for me.

Writing songs about it is a really useful way for me to love New York more, and stay observing it, and not just zone it out.

Don't just do something, be there.

Much of my work in this period was concerned with exploring the logic of economic models, but also with attempting to reconcile the models with everyday observation.

And so Harry became proficient in the task of cleaning up vomit.

The best classroom of all times was about two car lengths behind Juan Manuel Fangio.

Teaching the child to treat boundaries seriously teaches the child to respect the rights and needs of others. Thinking of another's needs creates empathy.