Death is not a tragedy to the one who dies; to have wasted the life before that death, that is the tragedy.

You killed more people than anybody in history." "Be the best at whatever you do, that's what my mother always told me.

I've watched through his eyes, I've listened through his ears, and I tell you he's the one.

I learned to separate the story from the writing, probably the most important thing that any storyteller has to learn-that there are a thousand right ways to tell a story, and ten million wrong ones, and you're a lot more likely to find one of the latter than the former your first time through the tale.

The future is a hundred thousand threads, but the past is a fabric that can never be rewoven.

I want to be the kind of boy you are, thought Bean. But I don’t want to go through what you’ve been through to get there.

Sometimes you have to trust people enough to let them succeed and love them enough to let them fail.