“... what you learn today, for no reason at all, will help you discover all the wonderful secrets of tomorrow.”

“if something is there, you can only see it with your eyes open, but if it isn't there, you can see it just as well with your eyes closed. That's why imaginary things are often easier to see than re...”

“Expect everything, I always say, and the unexpected never happens.”

“The most important reason for going from one place to another is to see what's in between, and they took great pleasure in doing just that.”

“And Milo, full of thoughts and questions, curled up on the pages of tomorrow's music and eagerly awaited the dawn.”

“You see, it's really quite simple. A simile is just a mode of comparison employing 'as' and 'like' to reveal the hidden character or essence of whatever we want to describe, and through the use of ...”

“Khiones eyes flared pure white. For once, she seemed at a loss for words. She stormed back up the stairsliterally. Halfway up, she turned into a blizzard and disappeared.”

“Khione’s eyes flared pure white. For once, she seemed at a loss for words. She stormed back up the stairs—literally. Halfway up, she turned into a blizzard and disappeared.”

“How are you going to make it move? It doesn't have a – " "Be very quiet," advised the duke, "for it goes without saying."And, sure enough, as soon as they were all quite still, it began to move qui...”

“A good traveler leaves no tracks. Good speech lacks fault-finding.”

“My father always said that too many words cheapened the value of a man's speech.”

“Words', he said, 'is oh such a twitch-tickling problem to me all my life. So you must simply try to be patient and stop squibbling. As I am telling you before, I know exactly what words I am wantin...”

“I am not a slow writer, I am not a fast writer . . . I am a half-fast writer.”