You have to be the first, best or different.
It's okay," he informs me. "Your grandfather is teaching me how to play poker. " If I know Grandad, that means what he'll really be teaching Sam is how to cheat.
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 feel there's so much still to learn about acting. But there is some magic in the capturing of performance and in the process of editing a performance. The psychology of human beings and what's coming through the face. . . that fascinates me.
It's a good thing to be rich and a good thing to be strong, but it is a better thing to be beloved of many friends.
I would hate people to think bossy is all I can do.
No falsehood is so fatal as that which is made an article of faith.