“[T]hrough bitter experience I have learned that it is best to promise little and then to reward hard work with generosity.”

“Money spent on good-quality gear is always money well spent.”

“I felt sure we could gain the upper hand by putting ourselves in the mindset of the Incas.”

“When I am about to embark on a difficult journey, I comfort myself by reading the accounts of the great nineteenth-century travellers, men like Stanley, Burton, Speke, Burckhardt and Barth.”

“Contemplation is a luxury, requiring time and alternatives.”

“Usually, there is nothing more pleasing that returning to a place where you have endured hardship.”

“I read the title from the cover. ' 'The joy of... crap.' ' I read the rest of the full title of the thick, nondescript volume to myself and felt myself redden.Noah turned over on to his side and sa...”

“Out of the corner of her eye she thought she saw Jace shoot her a look of white rage - but when she glanced at him, he looked as he always did: easy, confident, slightly bored."In future, Clarissa,...”

“Okay," I said. "Just a normal afternoon and two normal people."She nodded. "And so...hypothetically, if these to people likes each other, what would it take to get the stupid guy to kiss the girl, ...”

“Each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by ourselves”

“Love, like fire, goes out without fuel.”

“She's mad, but she's magic. There's no lie in her fire.”

“How difficult it must be to leave a place called home, along with all the bitter sweet memories attached, for someone special and later on visit the same place as a guest.”

“No one can be so welcome a guest that he will not annoy his host after three days.”

“Unbidden guests Are often welcomest when they are gone.”