---on her best days, she glimpses the limitless span of millennia behind her: millions of years, tens of millions.

Time is a slippery thing: lose hold of it once, and its string might sail out of your hands forever.

It's embarrassingly plain how inadequate language is.

I am only alive because I have not yet died.

This, she realizes, is the basis of all fear. That a light you are powerless to stop will turn on you and usher a bullet to its mark.

What the war did to dreamers.

War is a bazaar where lives are traded like any other commodity: chocolate or bullets or parachute silk.

What the war did to the dreamers.

Posters go up in the market, on tree trunks in the Place Chateaubriand. Voluntary surrender of firearms. Anyone who does not cooperate will be shot.

They can march for days without eating. They impregnate every schoolgirl they meet.

Stick-thin, alabaster-pale Etienne LeBlanc runs down the rue de Dinan with Madame Ruelle, the baker’s wife, on his heels: the least-robust rescue ever assembled.

I Travel a lot

Sorry about your bad luck.

Count your blessings as often as possible, and you would become very enthusiastic about transforming your struggles into blessings instead of crying or complaining about them.

I think there's some connection between absolute discipline and absolute freedom.

France is revolutionary or she is nothing at all. The revolution of1789 is her political religion.

... Treachery don't come natural to beaming youth; but trust and pity, love and constancy,-they do, thank God!

I know the streets, I know the system, I know poverty, and I know how it feels to be 15 and not have a safe place to go.

I believe we exist in a multiverse of universes.

Elizabeth Taylor has a big heart. She recently built a halfway house for girls who don't want to go all the way.

The uninitiated are those who believe in nothing except what they can grasp in their hands, and who deny the existence of all that is invisible.