We can't just act without thinking anymore, Tris. They've been trying to teach as that all along. I guess if we're mages, we can't exactly be kids, can we? - Sandry after the pirate attack

Money talks and walks, but it does not bark.

You look as scary as a buttered muffin.

Without patience, magic would be undiscovered - in rushing everything, we would never hear its whisper inside.

Threats are the last resort of a man with no vocabulary.

It's harder to heal than it is to kill.

Waves are the voices of tides. Tides are life.

I myself have noticed my growing resemblance to a daffodil.

Didn't they realize that the only way to change things was to act?

Without reading, we are all without light in the dark, without fire in the cold.

Waves are the voices of tides. Tides are life," murmured Niko. "They bring new food for shore creatures, and take ships out to sea. They are the ocean's pulse, and our own heartbeat.

No wonder being a real Christian isn't popular. Who wants to suffer so they can find joy?

When you steal from an artist you are stealing their blood, sweat and tears.

Just by luck, I picked good heroes to worship.

People find my things sometimes aggressive. But I don't see it as aggressive. I see it as romantic, dealing with a dark side of personality.

A good GI bill would increase the recruit pool.

Though we claim to believe the whole of Scripture, in practice we frequently deny much of it by ignoring it.

It is the heart and not the brain, That to the highest doth attain.

It is clear that whatever language of democracy [Barack] Obama and his administration use is very tactically deployed, and has as its main aim the extension of US power and interests.

May God strike me down with a hammer on the head before I write a book with a teach-y goal!

I am used to hear bad men misuse the name of God, yet God exists.