She announced her age right away, for children consider their ages every bit as important as their names.

One problem with being a leader, is that even among your friends you are alone, for it is you -- and you alone -- to whom the others look for final guidance.

May your adventures bring you closer together, even as they take you far away from home.

Is this what family is like: the feeling that everyone’s connected, that with one piece missing, the whole thing’s broken?

Rules and school are tools for fools! I don't give two mules for rules.

Children are capable of such open rudeness.

I've only just arrived, Kate. It may surprise you to learn that you were my top priority.

Now listen, we need to be quiet as mice. No, quieter than that. As quiet as . . . as . . .” “Dead mice?” Reynie suggested. “Perfect, ” said Kate with an approving nod. “As quiet as dead mice.

It's not going to be over until we say so.

The missing aren't missing, they're only departed

Even if he did explain it, no one would believe him because no one would understand him. That's the downside to being a genius - just because you understand something doesn't mean anyone else will.

There is a lot to do in life than to get bored with.

The Book that made the nation was destroying the nation.

The Edge... There is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.

Nothing is ever finished and done with in this world. You may think a seed was finished and done with when it falls like a dead thing into the earth

I am very unmusical. I can't carry a tune. I would never be able to play an instrument.

I'm very shy so I became very outgoing to protect my shyness.

You'll never be happy if you can't figure out that loving people is all there is. And that it's more important to love than be loved. Because that is when you feel love, by loving somebody.

I'm very comfortable in the storm.

It is only the superficial qualities that last. Man's deeper nature is soon found out.

I don't really care for like fat jokes about women, specifically.