A person who thought he knew everything simply didn’t understand how much there was to know.

I try to remind myself that we are never promised anything, and that what control we can exert is not over the events that befall us but how we address ourselves to them.

Doon was touched. Kenny looked like a tiny little wisp, but there was something strong inside him. --People of Sparks--

A darkness different from Ember's, but just as frightening.

You know, son, I don't think there's such a thing as an easy life. There's always going to be hard work and there will always be misfortunes we can't control, lurking out at the edges - storms, sickness, wolves. But there is such a thing as a good life and I think that we have one here.

Poppy was now almost well. She still slept more than usual, but when she wasn't sleeping she tromped around the doctor's house pulling spoons off the table and spilling cups of water and crumpling pages of books. That is, she was almost her old self.

What could be more interesting than thinking of mysterious happenings, finding the answers to intriguing questions, and making up new worlds?