You could give us a hand instead of staring into space like a constipated camel," Terry Tarsal rudley broke into Marcia's spinning thoughts.

Things have a habit of working out, you know. Eventually.

...yelling doesn't make a thing any more possible.

When the Fyre inside is kindled and when the Time Is Right, anything is possible.

You can't just rattle it off like a demented parrot.

Beauty Lures the Stranger More Easily into Danger -Septimus Heap

the chocolate raisins tasted somewhat fishy, but Lucy didn't care-chocolate was chocolate. She changed her mind however, when she realized that the raisins were tiny fish heads.

They would all be sorry... particularly the duck.

Blue to get ready Green to go Yellow to guide you through the snow Orange to warn you that over you’ll go Then red will be the final glow Now seek the black, there’s no going back.

Life was simple when you were a Shield Bug.

Oh it's a pebble... But it's a really nice pebble Dad thanks.

She'll die.' 'Aye. That's a consequence of being alive.

We had been two sides of the same coin, attached by a force stronger than family or friends. We had been one.

My mother had tried to fool me into thinking I was a natural beauty, and I’d believed her for a little while, that is, until I moved to the land of beautiful people.

We can all be successful and make money, but when we die, that ends. But when you are significant is when you help other people be successful. That lasts many a lifetime.

Is it not in the struggle to obtain knowledge that happiness exists? I am very ignorant, consequently the conditions of happiness are mine.

He who hesitates is sometimes saved.

Manipulation is moving together for my advantage. Motivation is moving together for mutual advantage.

The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history.

There are more and more taboos about calling something, anything, ugly.

the child unlucky in his little State, Some hearth where freedom is excluded, A hive whose honey is fear and worry, Feels calmer now and somehow assured of escape