The strong survive.

Don’t let them see you weak.

I refused to show my fear, lock it down, Huntress.

The belief in their actions can mend constellations. The ambition in their thirst for knowledge can both create and destroy.

It could be kindness. Faith felt hollow at the thought. She had needed kindness before, and has received none. Now it was too late, and she did not know what to do with it.

You can never solve a problem with the same kind of thinking that created the problem in the first place.

Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.

Congress would make it mandatory, absolutely require, that, every five years, people in Medicare have a required counseling session that will tell them how to end their life sooner

So far I haven't really been prominent enough to get critical attention focused on me. So, of course, I fully expect bad reviews, but I will be wracked with misery as a result.

In a country like Pakistan where is politics is often an art form of the elite, and it's often very dynastic, it's hard to explain to people why I don't think it's a birthright.

I scarcely know a professional man I can like, and certainly not one who has been what the world calls successful, that I should the least wish to resemble.

The sun was warm but the wind was chill. You know how it is with an April day.

The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human constructs, is the point from which fiction begins.