Optimizing your strength is not optional, it's an obligation.

If better were within, better would come out.

I'll follow you, even to death—but I won't live with you any more.

Carmen will always be free.

Wings are like dreams. Before each flight, a bird takes a small jump, a leap of faith, believing that its wings will work. That jump can only be made with rock solid feet.

Each day, the goal is to receive knowledge and remove ignorance. This reveals what we all search for. Wisdom.

It's not what you learn, it's the way you learn it.

I wonder in what way I would function as a person, in a society without ever attending school. I'd be myself.

Why study things of no use? To learn you don't need it and concentrate your efforts on what is important to you.

A tree is no more valuable than a seed. Both are simply at a different stage in their development.

There's a reason why golfers walk forward to their next shot. It's to move on.

The job of the writer isn't to answer questions. The job of the writer is to ask the questions for which there are no answers.

It's the people we love the most who can make us feel the gladdest ... and the maddest! Love and anger are such a puzzle!

Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking and its greatest failures by not talking. It doesn’t have to be like this.

You are you and you are me. You are the Keshet.

I definitely think leaving kids massive amounts of money is not a favor to them.

Stand by me, my brave grenadiers!

I love you, Anya,” he said. “You are my soul.

The way Gansey saw it was this: if you had a special knack for finding things, it meant you owed the world to look.

It was a big relief off my shoulder.

Whenever you see people talking about how real they are or how normal they are, it seems odd to have that self awareness that you could potentially not be normal.