Yes, he wanted to tell Krystof, it will hurt. Even if you don't get sick like them. It will hurt.

Being alive and living aren't the same.

... but she believed and that was the price of belief. It gave no discounts to friendship (p370)

He wondered if anyone really ever changed, or if stuff just piled on and on, covering up, but never erasing all the different parts. How deep would you have to dig to find who you started out as?

They understood what had really held the market together before. Violence. After all, what good was a debt if the creditor couldn't compel it to be paid?

Amnesia was a soldier's best friend, and luckily, it could be taught. Missing limbs still ache, but missing memories never do.

She never saw the point of making fun of strangers – how could you possibly know enough about them to hit below the belt?

This is a boy's lot: anything he does, anything whatever, may afterward turn out to have been a crime - he never knows. And punishment and clemency are alike inexplicable.

Being freaked out doesn't mean you can fix what you perceive to be the problem.

I use Pearl Eliminator Pedals and I swear by them.

I'm completely cricketed out. If I never have to write another word about cricket again, I'll be a happy man.

Were all important in god's eyes.

You know who was a hero? Franklin Roosevelt.

I'm like really famous. I got a famous anus.

I try to help my athletes visualize their full potential, and then get out of the way as they achieve it.

I haven't any wisdom - just a child like everybody else. I'm not as great as Frank Lloyd Wright.