“This was not the time to say I dont know. The brothers had begging, hungry looks, like dogs waiting to be fed. They wanted an answer. It would be nice if it was the right answer, but if it couldnt ...”

“Don't look back!" "Why not?" "Because I just did! Run faster!”

“Reality so often fails when it comes to small, satisfying details, she thought.”

“Even our fears make us feel important, because we fear we might not be.”

“...You want a special truth. *You* want the truth to be a truth that *you* like. You want it to be a pretty little truth that fits what you already believe!”

“Light died in the west. Night and tears took the Nation. The star of Water drifted among the clouds like a murderer softly leaving the scene of the crime.”

“Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul And sings the tune without the words And never stops at all.”

“Before she could stop her hands, they reached for him, as though they existed for no other reason than to touch him. Her fingers brushed across his jaw with a feather's caress before pulling away, ...”

“That's the beauty of it. Have you seen the contraptions these magicians build to accomplish the most mundane feats? They are a bunch of fish covered in feathers trying to convince the public they c...”

“Pain is the hammer of the Gods to break a dead resistance in the mortal's heart”

“You can't hammer in a nail with words...""No, but you can start a war with them.”

“If you give a man a hammer, he thinks he can solve all problems by pounding. Well, God gave men penises....”

“The holes in my shoes and the holes in my jeans make me whole!”

“You will write about that... you will write this and this and this... you gonna do that and that......Promises and promises... leaks in the holes!”