Oblivion eyes on a cereal box, the warm blinds of a father lost and last to know lost and last to love last boy lost you can't see even a bubble once it's popped

I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.

Mortals. I envy you. You think you can change things. Stop the universe. Undo what was done long before you came along. You are such beautiful creatures.

The right thing and the easy thing are never the same.

Knowing you don't have much time left changes things. You get kind of philosophical. And you figure things out-more like, they figure themselves out-and everything gets real clear.

There are no coincidences.

Because saving the people you love isn't stupid. It isn't even a choice

Who can judge the judge?

I'll love you until the day after forever.

It almost felt like she was sucking it all out of me, like she sucked on that sticky red lollipop, the one she kept licking as she drove.

the whole way down, I was only thinking one thing . . . L E N A

My name is David Charleston.I kill people with super powers.

We are more than the person who wakes each day. We are the dreams of the previous night and the nightmares of the week before.

It begs for a gospel of perseverance through inevitable failure... There is no antidote to the chaos of creative markets. Only the brute doggedness to endure it.

Much wants more and loses all.

For (Levi) Grossman, no books feel more like home than C. S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia, which provide the template for what he likes to read—and how he wants to write.

A pin has a head, but has no hair

Moon is also a naive native girl when she sets out for Carbuncle.

Please touch me. I need you to touch me.

In perseverance, in self command, in forethought, in all virtues which conduce to success in life, the Scots have never been surpassed.

People seem to have an impressive capacity to change themselves if you believe in them, if you tell them they can and give them some help in doing so.