If we believe that humanity may transcend tooth and claw, if we believe divers races & creeds can share this world as peaceably as the orphans share their candlenut tree, if we believe leaders must be just, violence muzzled, power accountable & the riches of the Earth & its Oceans shared equitably, such a world will come to pass.

Dreams are all I have ever truly owned.

This world, he thinks, contains just one masterpiece, and that is itself.

She has to lose her pre-Copernican view of a universe revolving around herself.

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.

Once any tyranny becomes accepted as ordinary, its victory is assured.

A book you finish reading is not the same book it was before you read it.