Stella turned to us. "One of us is going to have to swim it. Any volunteers?"Jamie shook his head. "Not it. Sharks, first of all, and second of all, sharks"- The Retribution of Mara Dyer

Thinking something does not make it true. Wanting something does not make it real.

I’ll walk forever with stories inside me that the people I love the most can never hear.

I was going to kiss him, and I was going to regret it. But at that moment, I couldn't bring myself to care.

Sometimes, the biggest secrets you can only tell a stranger.

You're stronger than you believe. Don't let your fear own you. Own yourself.

If I were to live a thousand years, I would belong to you for all of them. If we were to live a thousand lives, I would want to make you mine in each one.

Everyone's a little crazy. Some people just hide it better than others.

Maybe sometimes we can only see the truth about ourselves if someone shows us where to look.

It doesn’t matter what we are. It matters what we do.

I must be made of nothing to feel so much nothing.

I'm a terrible prince. I should put my kingdom first and everything else second, but your first. I want you by my side every second, but I know I would crumble if I lost you.

How often do the poor in the US get to stand in front of their nation's Marie Antoinette's and shove the stale, mass-produced cake of lower class reality back into their mouths?

If a choice is given to us between being mortal and being immortal, you will find no one in the group of mortals!

Peter, High King of Narnia," said Aslan. "Shut the Door.

The world is more alive at night; it's like God isn't looking.

All my forebears worked for a living. My grandfather painted portraits. My mother too. My aunt painted seascapes.

My whole life I had seen my father solve every problem he had through the use of violence.

There is properly no history, only biography.

A kind of semi-Solomon, half-knowing everything, from the cedar to the hyssop.

The man who would choose security over freedom deserves neither.