Feelings aren't good or bad. They're just weak or strong. Love, for example, is weak: someone loves you, you love them back, you're happy for a while, and then it fades away. But if one of those lovers betrays the other, then you have a real emotion - then you have something powerful, something that leaves a mark you'll never be rid of. Betrayal is the most delicious of all, but it takes a while to set it up, and fear can be just as intense if you know what you're doing.

I'd made a long list of exceptions to cover the area between "ignoring her completely" and "abducting her at knifepoint.

Embrace your complexity, stretch your creativity, and live up to your potential, you are what makes the world great.

Humans aren't defined by death, and they're not defined by what they lack. They're defined by their connections.

It's good to see you," Said Haru. "You can see me?" asked Marcus, patting himself in sudden shock."The potion must have worn off! That's the last time I give my lunch to a talking squirrel". P12

Happiness is the most natural thing in the world when you have it, and the slowest, strangest, most impossible thing when you don't.

My wit is like your legs," said Xochi. " It would be selfish of me to keep it hidden.