There is something brittle in me that will break before it bends. Perhaps if the [the enemy] had brought a smaller army I might have had the sense to run. But he overdid it.

We die a little every day and by degrees we’re reborn into different men, older men in the same clothes, with the same scars.

There is no sound more annoying than the chatter of a child, and none more sad than the silence they leave when they are gone.

I want her beyond reason. I need to own, consume, worship, devour. What I've made of her in my mind cannot live in flesh.

Sometimes I wished I could cut away old memories and let the wind take them. If a sharp knife could pare away the weakness of those days, I would slice until nothing but the hard lessons remained.

The way I’d put it, ” said Makin, “is that Rike can’t make an omelet without wading thigh deep in the blood of chickens and wearing their entrails as a necklace.

Perhaps I just wanted to know what it was that I wanted. Maybe that is all that growing up means.

It has been said that knowledge is power. We need to strengthen education systems so that young people can benefit from cultural diversity, and not be victimized by those who exploit differences.

Trees ask us to examine how we live in the natural world, with one another, and intrapersonally.

It's not that hard to be glamorous in England.

Sentimentality about nature denatures everything it touches.

The only time the press doesn’t sensationalize information is when one of their own is kidnapped. Interesting how they show restraint then.

People's belief in their own local reality-tunnels keep us all far stupider than we ought to be.

If Jehovah cannot support his religion without going into partnership with a State Legislature, I think he ought to give it up.

We fear doing too little when we should do more. Then atone by doing too much, when perhaps we should do less.

When you want to court a woman, court her sister first

You were safe on a troll. Anyone wanting to mug a troll would have to use a building on a stick.