Though mountains melt and oceans burn, The gifts of love shall still return.

They said that love was terrifying and tender, wild and sweet, and none of it made any sense.But now I knew that every mad word was true.

Knowing the truth is not always a kindness.

Why is he scared of the dark?"I meant the words for a joke, but Shade nodded seriously. "Like all monsters. Because it reminds him of what he truly is".

I remember the hours I had spent in Father's library, drugging myself with books so I could forget my doom for an hour..

I coudn't be kind to him after what he'd done, couldn't be cruel after what I had done

His kindness was only meant to make later torments crueler.

But I can’t . . . I can’t leave anyone to the darkness.

You will honor my mother or I will break this bottle over your head

Study the sky but never love it, ” Father had told Astraia and me a thousand times. “It is our prison and the symbol of our captor.

Detachment produces a peculiar state of mind. Maybe that's the worst sentence of all, to be deprived of feeling what a human being ought to be entitled to feel.

I am an expert at seeing peoples greatness.

I discovered I always have choices and sometimes it's only a choice of attitude.

In Australia, even the darkest subject matter has a little pinch of humor. A little sweet to make the sour go down.

Nobody could be a professional cartoonist, because you have to do something you don't like to do in order to be a responsible adult and pay the rent.

US spend more on research and development than the other countries, so we shouldn't be making the internet a more hostile, a more aggressive territory.

Why are a 'wise man' and a 'wiseguy' opposites?

Lots of the things we do are dangerous, but life itself is dangerous; nothing is really worth bothering with that isn't full of danger

I love being in bed almost as much as I love food.

Did you ever notice how difficult it is to argue with someone who is not obsessed with being right?