What if I fall?', Tim cried. Maerlyn laughed. 'Sooner or later, we all do.

Quiet people have the loudest minds.

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

The water was glassy and calm, still candy-colored in the afterglow of sunset.

A life without love is like a tree without fruit.

The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

Outside, daylight was bleeding slowly toward dusk.

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad.

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there... and still on your feet.

Because you're a girl and when a girl says she's fine, she's lying.

A trap is only a trap if you don't know about it. If you know about it, it's a challenge.

There are formalities between the closest of friends.

No one can bother you unless you agree with them.

It's easy to say young people should believe in themselves, but the number one thing is recognizing that it's a journey, that you have to build confidence in yourself.

There might be a dragon with five legs in my house, but no one has ever seen it.

Yes, disappointment over perceived unfairness, injustice, promises not kept, tends to go hand in hand with increasing prosperity. Expectations are dashed. What can I say!

How was I going to make a man fly? How was I going to convince the public that an actor could fly?

Neither your family nor your culture gave you your personality. You created it yourself.

Let the music speak to us of tonight, in a happier language than our own.