She smiled at me, and I never forgot it. Or more accurately, I always remembered it.

It's safe to tell us stuff, okay?" This means it's not safe to tell them anything.

You know that saying about how you don’t know what you have until it’s gone? I already did know what I had, and now that she’s gone, I know even more.

I don’t have enough gross words in my gross vocabulary to describe how gross that gross thought is. Gross.

maybe if people weren't so careless, then nothing would need to be caged.

I can't help seeing a cage for what it is. Sure, it protects the bulb, but maybe if people weren't so careless, then nothing would need to be caged.

I should kill you, ” Kallan whispered, “and watch your blood run with the cries of my people. If I kill you, all my troubles end. And I go home to Lorlenalin, my father’s death avenged.

You have the power to change not only you but also the world.

I have no fear of losing my life - if I have to save a koala or a crocodile or a kangaroo or a snake, mate, I will save it.

High mature digital organizations stretch out in every business dimension.

I do different work, teaching and running around visiting universities and bookstores, and that prevents me from writing. But it's nice to be wanted as a writer.

The real risk is doing nothing.

Whoever has character also has his typical experience, which returns over and over again.

Nonviolence is not a cloistered virtue, confined only to the rishi and the cave-dweller.

We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.

...his love was too much for him, he felt paralyzed, he wanted to sleep inside her lungs and breathe her blood and be smothered.