Neither of us asked to be born descendants, yet I’d be rewarded with his death, and we couldn’t prevent that. No one could. (Eric)

Sometimes I wonder about good and evil. If the villain wins, isn’t he heralded as the hero? I’ve tried so hard to be good since that day, but sometimes I wonder whether it’s even worth...

Unhappy people needs your smile more than Happy people do

Well that’s open to debate,’ he said. ‘It sounds like a recipe for disaster to me, and I hate the thought of you throwing yourself at guys just to try and get laid. Christ, I’d...

Faris turned on him. “Why choose to wear black today, of all days? I know why I’m in black. Why are you? Mourning?He looked startled. “One does not wear mourning for a servant.”You still don’t...

A small white rabbit with floppy ears and a twitching pink nose bounded out from the thick forest brush. Fingers twitching at his side, James stepped toward the small animal, a nervous giddiness creeping up...

every disagreement has to have a winner and a loser; life can never be a draw.

Yes, I do.

The only wand you’ll ever need is a better-feeling thought.

By the sound of things, you know nothing about mathematics.”You can put it like that. I’m utterly useless.”Useless is such a harsh word, you are merely… inexperienced. So I thought we could start at the...

I’m sure the other kids wouldn’t mind not being lectured by another toddler over the virtues of sharing and the mental benefits of toy blocks.

It had never occurred to me that simply being with a fellow prisoner would make me feel like I was still in prison.

Funny. You like it when I scream? Yet you cover my mouth!” I laughed then winced.

Even though we don’t admit it, every single one of us aspires to be like somebody, whether they live in the world today, within the bard’s lyrics, or on the pages in the Library

One thing I can guarantee, is that the world will never change itself because of our weaknesses. In fact, it has ways of actually becoming more dangerous when we approach it with a bad attitude.

Before long, everyone was giving him answers, and feeling a little superior, because it was really remarkable the number of things Chrestomanci seemed not to know. He had heard of Hitler, though he asked Brian...

It’s funny how one life-changing event could make you forget what happiness felt like.

MANIFEST.” The idea being if you thought and dreamed about the way you wanted your life to be — if you just envisioned it long enough, it would come into being.But as hard as I...

The temperature of my blood dropped several degrees, and I took a step back. My heart quickened. “Storm?” I prompted, looking at the boxes on the dock labeled “non-perishable.

They had pulled me from the hemorrhaging, dying body of my mother and turned me over to the care of the man who was not my father. He had taken me home to their tiny...

We fight the same and we love the same. Just because we are different does not mean that we aren’t equal.

Is it possible to love someone so completely, so intensely, they could never die? To give them more than just your heart or your soul? What if you could give then the miracle of immortality?

You can’t believe everything people tell you – not even if those people are your own brain.

Her gaze travels back to the lie twisted in a tempest of mud and blood. She witnesses the culmination of her recklessness through a curved lens. Absorbed in life uncoiling, unaware of the world beyond...

Thomas closes the gap between us and kisses me. Hard. This is not wet and sloppy like his playful kisses. Or dry and desperate like Percy’s. Or teasing like the king’s.No. This kiss is eloquent...

People like us were born to change the world. It’s filled with shit. It’s filled with people who did the things they did to you. It’s filled with stupid pointlessness and ignorance and so much...

I ‘d never seen him cry; I didn’t think he could . It would have to take something greater than the end of the world to reduce Vaughn Ashby to tears .

Marika could feel herself cocking the trigger of a loaded gun and pointing it at herself, because the truth could be too shocking a revelation, something that would shake their lives to the core… but...

No sooner had the thought occurred to him than he found himself staring down the barrel of a single-shot caplock pistol, and halted in his tracks. It was not a particularly accurate weapon if he...

Heroes, well, they don’t live so long. But they’re muy suave, and we all admire them.

You can be a great man and still be a fool. Many of our country’s leaders can attest to that. Were they still living.

Em didn’t truly understand about my panic attacks – no one did. But she’d never pushed me to explain, never tried to ditch me when things got weird, and never once looked at me like...

Nathaniel Strider could never love. He’s obviously discovered early on that girls’ hearts were vulnerable and all a lad needed was a penetrating gaze and a disarming smile and the world was at his feet.

Das Blau in seinem Blick multiplizierte und intensivierte sich, während er sich weiter zu mir vorlehnte. Irrtum, bemerkte ich: Ich zog ihn näher.

I don’t like you, Park. I think I live for you. I don’t think I even breathe when we’re not together. Which means when I see you on Monday morning, it’s been like sixty hours...

I lived in New York City back in the 1980s, which is when the Bordertown series was created. New York was a different place then — dirtier, edgier, more dangerous, but also in some ways...

Perception in the eye of vengeance becomes blurred. Ren was in need of a slap on the face, but I knew what was coming and that it would do the job properly.

A parent’s words maybe a little harsh and painful, but it will be their annoying redundant words of love and care that will mold us into a better person.

I hated all this: the mystery of myself.

Dirge of the dying and the stench of fear,Black souls repent as hell draws near,” – Percy Pemmeney the smuggler, from Curse of Ancient Shadows.

My first jailbreak began when a coarse-toothed mechanic’s file crashed through the window of the Deeper Harbour PoliceStation at two in the morning. The file bounced three or four times before clattering to a halt...

You learned right away that applause sounds like love.

Who am I really? Am I still the same person if I’m not even technically a person anymore? Does being stronger make me different? Will it?

My mission is not to make him happy and bear his children and be his wife. My mission is to kill him.

…Life had handed me a different set of cards and I was going to have to play my hand either way.

He watched her curiously from below, feeling as someone might feel watching a butterfly sit nearby, afraid to scare it off with a sound of voice or an abrupt movement.

I may have been buzzed last night, but I remember everything. I can’t promise you that I won’t want to drive you home, or kiss you like crazy again. Because I will. I do.

No valía la pena perder el tiempo en intentar cambiar el mundo; bastaba con evitar que el mundo lo cambiase a uno.

You know who you are you just have to believe it.

O, het was makkelijk om dingen op te geven en te beweren dat je vrij van de wereld was, gemakkelijk om kleine irritaties te vergeven en jezelf op de borst te kloppen, omdat je je...