It was a dream, and in dreams you have no choices: either there are no decisions to be made, or they were made for you long before ever the dream began.

When you die, they can make you into diamonds now. It’s scientific. That’s how I want to be remembered. I want to shine.

If you are pointing out one of the things a story is about, then you are very probably right; if you are pointing out the only thing a story is about you are very probably wrong - even if you're the author.

I am the most unhappy soul alive." "I'd heard it said that fairies have no souls." "Then do I ache, and bleed, and smart, elsewhere; still, call it soul for it is solely mine.

Too much talking these days. Talk talk talk. This country would get along much better if people learned how to suffer in silence.

I took delight in hurling books across the room if I knew I would not be reading the second chapter. Then I’d go and pick them up again, because they are books, after all, and we are not savages.

There are some as are what they are. And there are some as aren't what they seem to be. And there are some as only seem to be what they seem to be.