Put one word after another. Find the right word, put it down.

Life and death are different sides of the same coin.

Never use five words if you can get away with one, eh? I've known dead men talk more than you do.

It's always too late for sorries, but I appreciate the sentiment.

She really was pretty, for a grown-up person, but when you are seven, beauty is an abstraction, not an imperative. I wonder what I would have done if she had smiled at me like that now: whether I would have handed my mind or my heart or my identify to her for the asking, as my father did.

You’re alive. That means you have infinite potential. You can do anything, make anything, dream anything.

Soon enough his head would be swimming with tales of derring-do and high adventure, tales of beautiful maidens kissed, of evildoers shot with pistols or fought with swords, of bags of gold, of diamonds as big as the tip of your thumb, of lost cities and of vast mountains, of steam-trains and clipper ships, of pampas, oceans, deserts, tundra.