See, what a ready tongue suspicion hath! He that but fears the thing he would not know, Hath, by instinct, knowledge from others' eyes, That what he feared is chanced.
Crippled things are always more beautiful. It's the flaw that brings out beauty.
He wondered whether growing up was learning that most stories turned out to be lies.
Tana. In all my long life, though there were many times I prayed for it, no one has ever saved me. No one but you.
If they were real, then maybe the world was big enough to have magic in it. And if there was magic — even bad magic, and Zach knew it was more likely that there was bad magic than any good kind — then maybe not everyone had to have a story like his father's, a story like the kind all the adults he knew told, one about giving up and growing bitter.
I thought you needed to be tougher. But I've been thinking that protecting somebody by hurting them before someone else gets the chance isn't the kind of protecting that anybody wants.
There’s people who do things and people who never do—who say they will someday, but they just don’t. I want to go on a quest. I’ve always wanted to go on a quest. And now that I have one, I’m not backing down from it. I’m not going home until it’s complete.
I do not know who I am, where I am going - and I am the one who has to decide the answers to these hideous questions.
The only suggestions I get on my plays is to make them more of what they already are, and that's wonderful.
Spend the most time with your best people. . . . Talent is the multiplier. THe more energy and attention you invest in it, the greater the yield. The time you spend with your best is, quite simply, your most productive time. . . . Persistence directed primarily toward your non-talents is self-destructive. . . . You will reprimand yourself, berate yourself, and put yourself through all manner of contortions in an attempt to achieve the impossible.
And this also," said Marlow suddenly, "has been one of the dark places of the earth.