The old tale of Sleeping Beauty might end happily in French or English, but he was in Russia, and only a fool would want to live through the Russian version of any fairy tale.

It's the teachers, they're the enemy. They get us to fight each other, to hate each other.

'I could kill you like this,' Peter whispered. 'Just press and press until you're dead'.

I know everything I need to know already," Rigg always said... To which Father always replied,"See how ignorant you are? You don't even know why you need to know the things you don't know yet." "So tell me," said Rigg. "I would but you're too ignorant to understand the reasons why your ignorance is a fatal disease.

because if you can’t kill then you are always subject to those who can, and nothing and no one will ever save you.

All is going well, very well, I couldn’t ask for anything better— So why do I hate my life?

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