Now it was just the two of us, Max and me. And about a thousand other people around us.

The citizens of Ludania would finally be free, no longer forced into a class system that determined what language they could speak, what jobs they could do, or who they could be

He stood straight then, moving to stand directly in front of me as he dropped low and bowed dramatically. "Your Majesty.

As the Promethean fire which banished Darkness, so Knowledge bears the Power and the Light.

Life’s a marathon, not a sprint.

You NEED to learn how to fly before you learn how to land and you MUST learn how to land before you start flying.

Each spine was an encapsulated memory, each book represented hours, days of pleasure, of immersion into words.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

I tried to make myself as pretty as possible and even then I thought I was ugly. I found it madly difficult to go out, to show myself.

I think it's ill-advised to attribute pathologies to healthy people. It doesn't help normal, healthy, thriving children to be viewed as pitiable and fragile.

I’m trying to do better than good enough.

The reason the way of the transgressor is hard is because it's so crowded.

I went freelance in 1996 and my children are now teenagers and it seemed right.