Although I felt very weak, I did not feel ill; and strength, one always fancies, is a thing that may be picked up when we please.
One can never rack up his goals mere through hard-work, there is a thing in this world which is known as self-confidence.
You see, one of the best things about reading is that you'll always have something to think about when you're not reading.
The secret for mastery is concentration; the success of concentration is in elimination. Avoid everything in general and focus one thing in particular. You will be a master!
Hap sighed. If he could change one thing about Umber-besides his constant need for the thrill of exploration-it would be his obsession with secrets and surprises.
One would expect boredom to be a great yawning emotion, but it isn't, of course. It's a small niggling thing.
His home was populated by things and creatures from Niall Lynch's dreams, and his mother was just another one of them
Loneliness, dejection, the contempt or pity of people around you--these are unpleasant feelings. But they are precisely the things that produce genuine Dark Ones.
It’s one thing to fall in love. It’s another to feel someone else fall in love with you, and to feel a responsibility toward that love.
One of the odd things about middle age...was the strange decisions a man discovers he’s made by not really making them.
Orpheus said the mind is a slide ruler. It can fit around anything. Show me your body, he said. It only means one thing.
For I was sure of one thing, it wasn't always the hero who saved the world. It was the person most willing to die first.
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.
Ghosts are the only ones who never have to feel scared. Because the worst thing in the world has already happened to them.
The only thing true about what you just said was the storybook damsel part - and that only because you're pretty enough to be one.
You put things off and then one morning you wake up and say—today I will change the oil in my truck.
But as long as you know you're nobody special, you'll be a very decent sort of Horse, on the whole, and taking one thing with another.
To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world.
Pursue not the outer entanglements; Dwell not in the inner void; Be serene in the oneness of things; And dualism vanishes by itself.
-Do you want to posses my body? -"I want to do many things to your body but that's not one of them
Men were not supposed to be mushy, but one thing his mother taught him was that it was better to understand your feelings than hide from them
