On his brow a leaf of oaken, Cangeling child shall be his fate. Understanding words strange spoken, Chased by anger, fear, and hate.

Life is wonderful, so revel in its beauty. Be all you can be, and let go of the past. It is nothing but shadows.

The deer hovered by the trees beyond as the sounds of the ravening wolves came to them across the grass, their own senses almost frozen in impotent horror.

Fear is an instinct, like hunger or anger. We need it to help us survive, and it is nothing to be ashamed of. It lets us know whether we should fight or flee.

Everything Dies. That is the law of life-the bitter unchangeable law

Stones are raw, they blunt my paw, but words will never hurt me.

I'm frightened of nothing anymore," answered Fell simply, "except lies. For they're the real killers.

You are not evil, Fell. You have just been robbed of love. Of light.

But life is not a legend or a story. Reality is far more precious than a story.

Man, who thinks he knows everything. But what does man know...Man cares only for himself, in his fear and hate.

Real courage is not to give up hope, even in the most terrible darkness, and to carry on. That if courage and love is deep as despair, deeper, then light may come again

Isn’t that why all writers write? To inspire their readers?

Every great story seems to begin with a snake.

It would be pathological narcissism to assume that that person had to live how I live.

Ask God for forgiveness. Seek forgiveness from those you have wronged. Forgive those who have wronged you. Forgive yourself.

Law of Airlines: The shorter the time between flights, the greater the distance between gates.

A novel is a conversation between a reader and a writer.

Nothing so tires a person as having to struggle, not with himself, but with an abstraction.

Perspective is the rein and rudder of painting.

The boughs of no two trees ever have the same arrangement. Nature always produces individuals; She never produces classes.

There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea.