You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.

If he says jump, she doesn't even ask "How high?" She goes out and buys a pogo stick.

As for his name, well, what attorney wouldn't want to be able put a Judge in a crate every now and then?

Everytime I look at a zebra, I can't figure out whether it's black with white stripes or white with black stripes, and that frustrates me.

It still hurts," she whispered. "Even when you're doing it for someone else, that doesn't stop your ribs from getting cracked, or your wrist swelling, or your cuts from bleeding.

That,” she says, “was never here before.

Nobody, who looks at a shard of flint lying beneath a rock ledge, or who finds a splintered log by the side of the road would ever find magic in their solitude. But in the right circumstances, if you bring them together, you can start a fire that consumes the world.