Words are what you fight with but what you fight about is whether or not you're afraid of them.

It's a small world. It keeps recrossing itself.

We are only what we know, and I wished to be so much more than I was, sorely.

Who was blowing on the nape of my neck?

It'll be all right." Julia's gentleness makes it worse. "In the end, Jace." "It doesn't feel very all right." "That's because it's not the end.

Three or four times only in my youth did I glimpse the Joyous Isles, before they were lost to fogs, depressions, cold fronts, ill winds, and contrary tides... I mistook them for adulthood. Assuming they were a fixed feature in my life's voyage, I neglected to record their latitude, their longitude, their approach. Young ruddy fool. What wouldn't I give now for a never-changing map of the ever-constant ineffable? To possess, as it were, an atlas of clouds.

The best way to get out of debt is not to seek to get out of debt, but to seek to create wealth