You are the Protector of the Small. You see real people in the humans and animals overlooked by your peers. There will always be work for you.

Tris: "I was reading." Sandry: "You're always reading. The only way people can ever talk to you is to interrupt." Tris: "Then maybe they shouldn't talk to me.

A bully fights people littler and weaker than he is because he thinks it's fun.

I'm sick of this. Call me what you like, say I'm without honor, I don't care. I'm not getting on any more horses to whack you people with a stick.

Never break a promise to an animal. They're like babies—they won't understand.

What people tell me they take away from my books is that they can shape their lives, they can achieve their own dreams. And certainly that's what I want them to take away.

I think it's fair rude to make him a tree and not know what kind he is.