There was no echo, no reverberation. If anything the room ate sound. It swallowed her voice, her words, and her eternal, inadequate apology. But not her memories. She would never be rid of those.

He'd sooner die trying to hold the world on his shoulders than running away. Better always to run toward. And so he did.

Don't look at me like that, " said Ruza."Like what?""Like I'm a beautiful book you're about to open and plunder with your greedy mad eyes.

...but one can't be irredeemable who shows reverence for books.

On the occasions that he did look up from the page, he would seem as though he were awakening from a dream.

He wasn't an alchemist, or a hero. He was a librarian, and a dreamer. He was a reader, and the unsung expert on a long-lost city no one cared a thing about.

It was a different life out here, but make no mistake: Lazlo was every bit the dreamer he had always been, if not more. He might have left his books, but he carried all his stories with him.

Even if it was just walls and a roof with papers inside, it had bewitched him, and drawn him in, and given him everything he needed to become himself.

It was impossible, of course. But when did that ever stop any dreamer from dreaming.

If you're afraid of your own dreams, you're welcome here in mine.

I turned my nightmares into fireflies and caught them in a jar.

If you have to stretch that far to reach the justification you want, then perhaps you’re standing upon the wrong pedestal.

When faced with a problem, don't keep on discussing it. Go beyond the mental barrier to resolve it.

Aging gracefully - A concept that is rejected in 40s, but gracefully accepted in 50s...

A teacher is a person who never says anything once.

Someone who has experienced trauma also has gifts to offer all of us - in their depth, their knowledge of our universal vulnerability, and their experience of the power of compassion.

I borrowed 100 pounds and made the pact with God: Make me a millionaire - and you can have half of my money.

I've had two children and no surgery. My body is the result of good genes and a healthy attitude.

Well, I wouldn't say that I was in the great class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.

All the evil in the world is the fault of the self-styled pure in heart, a result of their eagerness to unearth secrets and expose them to the light of the sun.

But only in their dreams can men be truly free. It was always thus and always thus will be.