Some promises aren’t worth keeping.

Death’s favorites don’t die.

Yeah, the whole family knows. It's no big deal. One night at dinner I said, 'Mom, you know the forbidden love that Spock has for Kirk? Well, me too.' It was easier for her to understand that way.

There’s people who do things and people who never do—who say they will someday, but they just don’t. I want to go on a quest. I’ve always wanted to go on a quest. And now that I have one, I’m not backing down from it. I’m not going home until it’s complete.

She'd always been a little contemptuous of beauty, as though it was something you had to trade away some other vital thing for.

It feels like the whole world has turned upside down. There aren't any more rules. Hey,' I say to Sam, because if the world's gone crazy, then I guess I can do whatever I want. "Guess what? I'm a worker.

She wears trouble like a crown. If she ever falls in love, she’ll fall like a comet, burning the sky as she goes.