A book that bores me to tears is a book that neglects character building and quality of prose.

It was a very hard thing to have crushed the heart, and the hopes, of a friend.

Children are geniuses.

It was just that she had the need to tell him something honest, something honest and unhappy, because cheerful lies tonight were too depressing and too sharp, turning in on her like pins

I wanted you to go away, because it hurts to be with you when I can't see you." - Po

You won't even take your bow? Are you planning to throttle a moose with your bare hands, then?" "I've a knife in my boot," she said, and then wondered, for a moment, if she could throttle a moose with her bare hands.

And of course she understood now why her body wanted to run whenever he appeared. It was a correct instinct, for there was nothing to be got from this but sadness.