Please, Katsa, " he finally said. "At least talk to me".She swung around to face him. "What it there to talk about? You know how I feel, and what I think about it.""And what I feel? Doesn't it matter?

The only way for you to keep your mind straight is to run from those who would confuse you.

A man who fights you as he does is no better than an opportunist and no worse than a thug.

She wanted to cause him pain for taking a place in her heart she wouldn't have given him if she'd known the truth.

In the end, Leck should have stuck to his lies. For it was the truth he almost told that killed him.

I have no doubt that you are more than capable of bringing the Monsean queen and my son and the rest of my sons and a hundred Nanderan kittens through an onslaught of howling raiders if you chose to.

You're afraid of your own anger.

Hidden yourself in a hole and dared to burden no one with your grievous friendship? I will have friends, Katsa. I will have a life, even though I carry this burden.

Your brothers are the foolish ones for not seeing the strength in beautiful things.

But everyone has some kind of power to hurt people.

He leaned heavily on the desk now, as if danger had strengthened him before and its lack now made him weak.

It's funny how most people love the dead, once you're dead, you're made for life.

I want to keep meeting new people, enlarging my circle of friends. I have great friends now... really good people. But I'm always ready for what comes next.

The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.

When you're young, you haven't the experience, when you're old you haven't the strength.

Nothing surprised me more, and meant more to me, than seeing an entire class of ninth graders mob Congressman [John] Lewis at a book festival.

The more you own, the more you know you don't own.

If you think about how long it takes to write a piece of music for an orchestra, it's outrageous to me, outrageous.

Americans have powerfully sensed that we're off track. There is a structural challenge in our economy that needs to be addressed.

All men [are] of one metal, but not in one mold.

You have to be careful as a libertarian because you can sound very Republican.