If I can't joke about imminent death, then I might as well just resign.

Interesting doesn't always equal practical, but being practical is always less interesting.

All stories are true. But some of them never happened.

said Jack matter-of-factly. "I'm a man. We're made to think more quickly." ...Aven swung her fist and clocked Jack square on the chin, knocking him backward into the balloon, which was still under repair. ...Aven rubbed her knuckles and looked at the others. "Sorry about that. I might have stopped myself from hitting him, but I didn't think of it quickly enough.

It is the world, my boy," he said. "All the World, in ink and blood, vellum and parchment, leather and hide. It is the World, and it is yours to save or lose.

I'm a conundrum. Or an enigma. I forget which.

Prayers aren't for the deity...They're for you, to recommit yourself to what you believe.