The exception is I'm not going away. Don't ask me to do that ever again.

Love is not the absence of logic but logic examined and recalculated heated and curved to fit inside the contours of the heart.

There are a million ways to lose someone you love.

When you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging.

What do you say when the feelings don't fit into words?

It was as though he didn't exist, and then suddenly, he was everywhere.

He laughed, and the sound reduced the pain of every sore place on my body to the dullest ache.

I never wanted you to get hurt, but i wanted to take you from him.

I've changed since I've known you. Not because you made me into someone else - but because you showed me a path I'd never paid attention to, and I chose to follow it.

I say I don't believe in love, but that's not really true - love is just the name of an emotion. It's like on steroids. It's lust with ethics.

sometimes, how a situation is perceived carries more weight than the reality of the matter.

Even a book can be dangerous in the wrong hands, and when that happens, you blame the hands, but you also read the book.

...and I wonder if there is any way to adequately describe the folly that causes us to undo all the great gifts of both Earth and Heaven.

Henry James chews more than he bites off.

To fight against the infidels is Jihad; but to fight against your evil self is greater Jihad.

You can fall, but you can rise also.

Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do.

All the way up the river she's been holding back somehow, waiting. Now you'll both have to wait. I'm not going to disappoint her, Kit. When I take you on board the Witch, it's going to be for keeps.

Sitting around idly contemplating doesn't produce much. In work you can discipline your attention, forget about your misery.

It is beautiful to wish to add another's light to your own.

I can try to disable it," I said, "but if I mess up, this whole apartment is going to fill with gas. We'll die." Thalia swallowed. " I trust you. Just... don't mess it up.