We were the only humans - the only forms of life, in fact - for hundreds of miles in each direction, unreaching and unreachable as we rocketed back towards civilisation.

A turmoil of winds rushed around him, spiraling up in to the air: he was thinking.

Reading always calmed me down: filling my head with other - made up - people's problems and conflicts made my own seem less terrible, less real.

You will do as you are told the second you are told to do it. Is that clear?''I'm not six mother, I think I can grasp standard sentences.' Whether I chose to pay attention to them however...

At least it would have been perfect, if it wasn't for my mother.

I loved him, more than anything else in the world and that when he was away it was hard to breath and that I couldn't go through a single second without thinking about him.

He could never care about you. He sees you in the same way they see all of us: ruthless, cruel and power hungry." He laughed callously. "I guess we're about to prove them right.

Your powers don't work in the rain do they? A little bit of water and your fire fizzles out? So Little Miss Perfect does have a weakness after all!

I felt as though a large knot of flames had been lit in my stomach, making me feel nauseous and excited all at once

I'm a Helian, and you're an Arcan. We're just made that way. I don't think we would ever be able to really understand each other.

The hero was the sort of character you could feel yourself falling in love with, no matter how much you tried to convince yourself that he wasn't real

Teach the ignorant. Study the wise. Avoid the foolish. Embrace the enlightened.

I like to think I’ve written something worth reading when I cry the tears of the characters.

Friendship is a plant which must be often watered.

It is better to fall short of a high mark than to reach a low one.

The great advantage to labor arising out of co-operative effort has been apparent to me for many years.

Redemption is a magnificent thing ..the life of God in the soul of man

You exist in time, but you belong to eternity.

Ultimately, the goal of hitting is to get your mind out of the way and let your body take over - and to slow the game down

Lovers are rarely the most rational beings in creation.

People have no right to make fools of themselves, unless they have no relations to blush for them.