Fear can be your friend. It tells you when to run and when to hide. The trick is that after you’ve run and hid, you have to tell your fear thank you very much, you’re fine now, come back later.

I loved him. And he thought that meant that he had no responsibilities.

I wanted to matter. For my life to matter. So many people die and no one knows they ever existed. They’re ripples in a stream, disappearing when the wind blows.

Did he really just poop a rainbow? Seriously, did that just happen? Because I saw it happen.

Don’t confuse mercy for forgiveness.

The only fearless people I’ve met were frightfully stupid.

The beanstalk felt like sandpaper”.

Your need to kill me is not greater than my need to use you,” Tamra informed the kehok.

She was our friend and our enemy, Chancellor Xanon,” Naelin said. “We will mourn our friend who was killed by our enemy. Surely you understand that a life is more complex than a label. We can love who she was while we hate what she’s done.

They didn’t understand that evil could grow if planted in a field of banal cruelty.