Live deliberately. Decide: are you the kind of person things happen to, or the kind of person who makes things happen?

Always, always ask for what you want. Because the Universe might surprise you — and give it to you.

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.

Not many people can lay claim to having broken Time, and we did it purely by accident.

A choice with no consequences has no value. Making a choice knowing there will be consequences, and being willing to bear them, is what distinguishes the right choices from the wrong ones.

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

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.