The morning was full of sunlight and hope.

Hope is a delicate thing. A dangerous thing.

You, on the other hand, wish to know things. And no one can forgive a girl for that.

Her fear was strong, but her need for the truth was stronger.

The thing is--fear can't hurt you any more than a dream.

I do not fear pain.

But that's the thing about being the girl who's spent years convincing the world she's not afraid of anything: At some point, someone is going to find out you're afraid of everything.

You think you walk, Lucy? I think you fly. You see yourself in a uniform? I see you in a cape. You're a hero, of the quietest but most genuine nature.

Every day you say something or do something that challenges me, changes me.

Home isn't a place. Home is the people who love you most, the people who will always love you, forever and ever, no matter what.

She liked then to wander alone into strange and unfamiliar places. She discovered many a sunny, sleepy corner, fashioned to dream in.

I'm afraid of failing. I'm afraid of letting this opportunity pass us by. And I'm afraid of what happens if nothing in this world ever changes.

It was the hour of a profound human change, and excitement was generating on the air.

Reading is awesome. Just escaping into someone else's life, into another world. In books, everything is possible.

But compare the hardest day's work you ever did with the idleness that splits flowers and pokes its way into spiders' stomachs, and thank your stars that your head has got something it must think of, and your hands something that they must do.

Change is a good thing. It's good to have a fresh start, even if it's painful sometimes.

Home is the people who love you.

Home isn't a place. It's not having a bed to come home to, or a yard, or a Christmas tree at the holidays. Home is the people who love you.

He's my family, and you don't just push family aside for some itch you want to scratch. That's not how real love works. Real love is support, even when you're fighting. Real love in honesty, even when the truth hurts like hell. Real love is being there through every miserable minute and every indefinite minute.

He is an idiot," I said. "One who thinks he's a genius/ They're the most dangerous kind.""No, the most dangerous kind are the ones with power," he said.

We like the shadows. That's where all the power is.

You have been given a great power. But no power comes without a price. That is how magic works. How the universe works. All things kept in balance.

So Santa Claus is bogus but Grim Reapers are the genuine article. What does that say about the world?

She had resolved to never take another step backward.

They got to live before they can afford to die.

I will never forget your fire. I can't wait to see what you do.

It's always going to get better someday. Sometime in the future, things won't be so crazy.

What's happened has happened. You can't change the past. All you can do is work on making a brighter future.

The future is never fixed, but always in flux until the moment it meets with the present.

Words can lie. See beyond them.

You can't pray a lie--I found that out.

Sometimes, the most dangerous people were the ones you trusted most.

That's what trust is. It's about giving someone else power over you. Power to hurt you.

Trust is a lot to ask of someone.

Trust your gut, and don't let fear get the best of you.

The trouble with him was that he was without imagination.

Once you laugh with a person? That person is your friend.

If men were angels, no government would be necessary.

There must be something in books, things we can't imagine.

Travel always excited her--the strong and unfamiliar smells, the movement, the anxiety of arrival and departure times, she shouting of conductors, the idea of her tired old self changed by ever new surroundings.

The world is full of places I haven't been.

An' I got to thinkin', on'y it wasn't thinkin', it was deeper down than thinkin'.

You can't forget the past.

You can't be paralyzed by fear of failure or you will never push yourself.

I was alone again in the unquiet darkness.

Attend to your own fate.

Maybe not getting what she wanted gave her everything she wanted after all.

You may well warn me against such an evil. Human nature is so prone to fall into it!

But that's the wonderful thing about man; he never gets so discouraged or disgusted that he gives up doing it all over again, because he knows very well it is important and worth the doing.

For you, it's gossip. For me, it's action.

Sometimes a sad man can talk the sadness right out through his mouth. Sometimes a killin' man can talk the murder right out of his mouth an' not to no murder. You done right. Don't you kill nobody if you can help it.

I wish you to believe whatever you think is true, at any and every cost.

What are you worried about, Burke?""You, me, fall, friends, college, life. Nothing big.

The truth costs.Lies cost more.

We're a team like tea and milk, or cake and custard, or pork and apple.

It is perhaps, plausible that a man in this situation, impressed with the unconcern of the universe, should see the innumerable flaws of his life and have them taste wickedly in his mind and wish for another chance.

It ain't kin we? It's will we?

Got a lot of sinful idears--but they seem kinda sensible.

Nothing hurts you unless you let it.

Stories can save us.

Stories are for joining the past to the future.

What stories can do, I guess, is make things present.

I had a chance. I knew I had no more than that. it's all a hero asks for.

Home isn't these four walls. Home is wherever we are together.

I leave such ventures ti you younger men with the fever of life still in your blood.

I'd wish you good luck, but you won't need it. You get to write your own story now. Nothing's luckier than that.

Everything around you that you call life was made up by people, and you can change it.

Jus' live the day. Don' worry yaself.

It is a valuable thing for an intelligencer to be forgotten.

I hope I take up the cause of all oppressed people rather warmly.

I know I tackled something big, new, and scary and I survived.

Sometimes you have to sacrifice your queen to capture the king.

You're afraid of making mistakes. Don't be. Mistakes can be profited by.

You are not responsible for the murderous rampage of an alien psycho, okay?

My own rule is to let everything alone.

It didn't feel sporting to shoot at a crazy person, even if that person was a vampire who'd agreed to the job.

It was a dreadful thing to see. Humans beings can be awful cruel to one another.

Murder is not a suitable topic of conversation for a young lady.

Perhaps it wasn't age but what you were capable of, the lengths to which you were willing to go to get what you wanted, that mattered most.

There's a very thin line between rightfully protesting, and protesting so much that it becomes clear you're trying to hide something.

My life held endless prospects, and I could've lived it so many different ways.

I climb fences when i got fences to climb.

I still don't have all the answers, but I'm no longer afraid to confront the questions.

It is of course dangerous to set off an explosive device on a spacecraft.

Once I make a decision, I stick to it.

You have to embrace the idea of imperfection, even in the thing that is most perfect for you.

After every unladylike action, there must be an equal and opposite reaction. Consider the necessary, analyze the consequences, clean up the mess.

Tonight I crash an airship. On purpose.

Once you take the cat out of the bag, you can't cram it back in.

But guilt isn't smart. It isn't logical. It doesn't only live in the places it belongs.

Honor is overrated.

She wanted to destroy something. The crash and clatter were what she wanted to hear.

It don't make no difference whether you do right or wrong, a person's conscience ain't got no sense, and just goes for him anyway.

Dance it off.

I dearly love a laugh.

Together, we will prevail, and we will be free.

He might have lost his mind, but never his fashion sense.

Sometimes you have to do wrong to do right.

You gwyne to have considerable trouble in yo' life, en considerable joy. Sometimes you gwyne to git hurt, en sometimes you gwyne to git sick; but every time you's gwyne to git well agin.

Happiness is important. Fun is everything.

None of them knew the color of the sky.

I'm seventeen and I'm crazy.

Everything we're doing is freakin' iffy. That's what makes it so much fun.

Luck was fine and well, but I didn't need it. I had a plan.

Look out for luck. You can't trus' luck.

Don't throw away luck on little stuff. Save it up.

Risk is part of the game.

But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing.

Everyone should have a hippie painter anarchist in their lives. It's the guys in silvered aviators with guns that you've got to be wary of.

And when he broke, it was a miracle he managed to find all the pieces of himself again.

We may be a little broken these days but I wouldn't trade it for anything.

No one is too old for fairy tales.

Consider the necessary, analyze the consequences, clean up the mess.

Before her angry impulses got the better of her, she admonished herself that she was born to win and that one did not win by throwing temper tantrums--at least not outside of one's own home, which could result in vicious, spurious rumors.

One did not win by throwing temper tantrums.

She was happy to be alive and breathing, when her whole being seemed to be one with the sunlight, the color, the odors, the luxuriant warmth of some perfect Southern day.

That's why you can't give up. Heroes don't give up.

But you are a different sort of girl. Not at all what I expected you to be. And this is a different sort of time. And so I am hopeful for all the things you may yet find.

What a privilege it is to live now, at just this moment, and to be able to go anywhere....

The best heroines, she'd always believed, took their fate into their own hands.

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

She wanted to be herself at all costs.

I am who I am and that's it!

Upon my word, you five your opinion very decidedly for so young a person.

I don't understand boys.

Do not go looking for boys in the dark They will say pretty things then leave you with scars. Do go looking for boys in the park For that is where the true gentlemen are.

It only takes one voice to give others the chance to see possibilities.

You can't look back. Nothing you can do to change it. Only forward.

Each morning, despite the unknowns, they made their legs move.

You lose track of time when you're deep in conservation with an otherworldly being made of pure Loric energy.

Obsessed is a word that the lazy use to describe the dedicated.

Regrets are for wusses.

I hate missing everything. That's why I want to marry well and be a grand lady. Then I can host all the parties, all the time, and see everything that is going on always. How can you stand not knowing?