Truly, Autumn is my season,” the scarlet beast chorted. “Spring and Summer and Winter all begin with such late letters! But Autumn and Fall, I have loved best, because they are best to love.

But lost children always find each other, in the dark, in the cold. It is as though they are magnetized, and can only attract their like.

Death is not a checkmate…it is more like a carnival trick. You cannot win, no matter how you move your Queen.

That's Venus, September thought. She was the goddess of love. It's nice that love comes on first thing in the evening, and goes out last in the morning. Love keeps the light on all night.

Never trust anyone under one hundred!

Never put your faith in a Prince. When you require a miracle, trust in a Witch.

You should always listen to minotaurs. Anybody with four stomachs has to have a firm grip on reality.

When one is traveling, everything looks brighter and lovelier.

I’ve a devil of a habit for being right.

Funny how "question" contains the word "quest" inside it, as though any small question asked is a journey through briars.

Do not ruin today with mourning tomorrow.

...but fear of death gives us strength.

Friends are a special kind of love because they are there for one another like no other relationship can be.

I already fear for my life just because of who I am, you think adding a little inconsequential vampire to the equation will change any of that?

Yet today we make room for a remarkably narrow range of personality styles. We’re told that to be great is to be bold, to be happy is to be sociable.

Tears mess up your makeup.

Today, as yesterday, a nation is judged by its attitude towards refugees.

Though truth and falsehood be Near twins, yet truth a little elder is.

Compassion is not a popular virtue

My state has the highest child poverty rate in all of New England, above the national average.

I'm confident of what I have to achieve in the buildup to London 2012.