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

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.

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

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.

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.

Where there has been true science, art has always been its exponent.

I wonder if anyone but me realizes what goes on in that head back of your deceptively sweet face.

Events fall into a pattern that we can only discern retrospectively. We credit ourselves with far more agency than we actually possess. Things happen because they happen.

A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.

Style is to see beauty in modesty.

I really believed all this stuff - that I had to change the world.

Somewhere inside me there’ll always be the person I am to-night

Security isn't a thing you get and hold onto. You have to let it go and earn it again, over and over.

I mix and match, from top to bottom.

I love being pregnant!