When one steals a flying balloon and animates it to fly over Paris, one should, ideally, have some idea how said balloon normally works.

It sucked to be old enough to want to know what was going on, but so young you were always dismissed.

I screwed her over. I didn't want to see her screwed over by someone else.

She shook her head. She was so pale under the diffuse lamp-light that she looked almost transparent, as if Simon could have looked right through her. The way, he supposed, he always had.

In all the world, you are what I love the most.

They kind of look like evil lawn gnomes

You're an idiot." "I've never claimed to be otherwise.