Anything can become a children's book if you give it to a child...Children are actually the best (and worst) audience for literature because they have no patience with pretence.

So the whole war is because we can't talk to each other.

If you try and lose then it isn't your fault. But if you don't try and we lose, then it's all your fault.

And then he thought: Is this how idiots rationalize their stupidity to themselves?

Firequencher raised his hand. "I've been staying out of family conversations. Do I get credit for that?

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

For it is in the millions of small melodies that the truth of history is always found, for history only matters because of the effects we see or imagine in the lives of the ordinary people who are caught up in, or give shape to, the great events.