Sometimes, on our way through the world, we meet someone who touches our heart in a way others don't.

The one thing worse than an enemy is a friend turned false.

You aren't a hero and I'm not beautiful and we probably won't live happily ever after " she said. "But we're alive and together and we're going to be all right.

he cut through the 21st Century Gallery, past the big plastic statues of Pluto and Mickey, animal headed gods of lost America

I used to be very fascinated by Victorian stuff, and my best known books, the Mortal Engines series, have a sort of retro, Victorian vibe, despite being set in the far future.

I still feel, as I did when I was six or seven, that books are simply the best way to experience a story.

Moving cities are a fairly hoary old sci-fi trope - I seem to recall they were always cropping up on Doctor Who when I was young, though I may be misremembering.

But boys will be boys, even the ones who are only girls dressed up: That's one of the rules of the world.

Godshawk looked surprised, the way that people generally do when you ask them philosophical questions in shrubberies in the middle of the night.

Is it...dead?" asked Tom, his voice all quivery with fright. "A town just ran over him," said Hester. "I shouldn't think he's very well.

But we're alive, and together, and we're going to be all right.

Don't leave it all unsaid, somewhere in the wasteland of your head.

‎"Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights.

I don't write songs about a specific, elusive thing. I write about love, and everyone knows what it is like to have your heart broken.

Telling my story is to empower people to believe in their own power. We have so much power individually.

This universe is a fan of you. Watch the flowers in the morning, how they open towards the same sun that spends it's whole day following you.

My children are most important to me. I'm a mother and I adore my children. I live for them.

He's the kind of liar who totally forgets what he told you the last time, but he believes every single lie with such conviction that sometimes he can convince you of it.

I feel that the Air Force has not been giving out all the available information on the Unidentified Flying Objects. You cannot disregard so many unimpeachable sources.

Do you prefer that you be right or happy?

The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.