...but hope seduces like a silver tongue, double-edged like a dagger that cuts both ways.

There's nothing weak about beauty, child. The only weakness in it is if you think it means anything important.

We oft know little of who we were, only something of who we are, and nothing of who we may be.

The ugliest thing in the world is a beautiful woman without the brains or courage to know that [beauty] is nothing more than an accident.

Everything is funny from some angle, I assure you it is. It's just a matter of where you're standing.

Got a light? See? Careful. I'm everything you ever dreamed.

If it is art, it is not for all, and if it is for all, it is not art.

River is river.

Either nobody's perfect, or everyone is.

The more Wayne inhabited Edison, the more he wondered how a man cultivates a stubborn streak so pronounced that it transforms a daily barrage of failures into stimulants.

Strive to become the best version of you instead of the best copy of someone else's life.

The biggest emotion in creation is the bridge to optimism.

Thanksgiving is nothing if not a glad and reverent lifting of the heart to God in honor and praise for His goodness.

I don't remember doing anything else; I don't remember not living in the studio. I'm itching for people to hear this album because I'm sick of hearing it myself.

But listen up Alex Rider.