Not kill us," Pigeon corrected. "She was mainly just trying to turn us into mindless slaves.

Don't let the brownies bite.

False humility is more insulting than open pride!

In short, heroism means doing the right thing regardless of the consequences.

An unread book does nobody any good. Stories happen in the mind of a reader, not among symbols printed on a page.

Smart people learn from their mistakes. But the real sharp ones learn from the mistakes of others.

Want a reliable road to emotional and spiritual suicide? Spend your life trying to fit in.

Hello, cell. How are you? Still dank and dirty? Me? I've taken up a new habit: talking to my cell. It's like talking to myself but slightly more pathetic.

Running toward danger is foolhardy. ... But so is closing your eyes to it. Many perils become less dangerous once you understand their potential hazards.

FABLEHAVEN: None who enter will leave unchanged. Trespassers will be turned to stone.

Hard to call it a party without sardines.

Whatever you find to be very difficult for you, believe it that it’s never difficult if you do something little about it every day!

Sin also affects the conscience, until one becomes slow to detect the approach of sin.

Be it tart or sweet, always savor the moment. You'll not taste one just like it again.

I wasn´t expecting to come home to you, but now that you´re here, I have no intention of letting you leave." Patch :D (p. 295)

It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

“You have superpowers.” "I don't have supernerves,” she said, “so don't get on them.”

But they (the infantry) had no use for boys of twelve and thirteen, and before I had a chance in another war, the desire to kill people to whom I had not been introduced had passed away.

Theater is a recreation. It can be much more, but unless it's recreation, I don't see the point of it.

It is only the inexperienced and thoughtless who find pleasure in killing fish for the mere sake of killing them. No sportsman does this.

I've done it! I have become a summoner!