The world needed a little Evil, so Good had something to compare itself to, but you couldn’t let it think it had the right-of-way on the road and an invitation to dinner.

Hell of a thing to have to experience, hell of a thing to have to see, to be reminded you’re a human being and all it meant to be one.

More likely, they would just cease to exist.””That’s death.””No, it’s different. Death leaves a corps.

Once, there were no predators, no prey. Only harmony. There were no quakes, no storms, everything in balance. In the beginning, time was all at once and forever — no past, present, and future, no...

In memory, she lived and moved and laughed, but all that a photograph could offer was one frozen moment of a life.

Quick now, here, now, always, as if we are in a condition of complete simplicity…

No one can grant you happiness. Happiness is a choice we all have the power to make.

The secret is not to think, we think in words. And what lies beyond the reality we see is a truth that words can’t contain, the secret is to feel.

Her exceptional beauty also helps her to keep her secrets. Most people tend to think the best of those who are blessed with beauty; we have difficulty imagining that physical perfection can conceal twisted emotions...

We make so many of our own troubles, from mere mishaps to disasters, by dwelling on the possibility of them until the possible becomes inevitable.

Each book is a mind alive, a life revealed, a world awaiting exploration, but living people are all those things, as well—and more, because their stories haven’t yet been completely told.

When you laugh at yourself, you gain perspective. Then you realize that the mistakes you made, as long as they didn’t hurt anyone but yourself——well, you can forgive yourself for those.

These days, all I ask Fate is that the people she hurls into my life, whether they are evil or good, or morally bipolar, should be amusing to one degree or another.

…I stood there, inexpressibly grateful that my life, for all its terrors, is so filled with moments of grace.

Do as little harm to others as you can; make any sacrifice for your true friends; be responsible for yourself and ask nothing of others; and grab all the fun you can. Don’t give much...