To read, even in the half-dark, is also to call the lost forward.

I shall pray for your soul,' promised Nessarose. I shall wait for your shoes,' Elphie answered.

Before you save anyone else, you have to save yourself. otherwise, you'rejust a bundle of tics, a stringed puppet manipulated by the chance and the insensible wind.

Where I'm from, we believe in all sorts of things that aren't true... we call it history.

She dreamed of leaving, but she had too little exposure to the world to imagine where to go.

Even God used silence as a strategy.

Wisdom is not the understanding of mystery. Wisdom is accepting that mystery is beyond understanding. That's what makes it mystery.