“What power would hell have if those imprisoned here would not be able to dream of heaven?”

“There's none so blind as those who will not listen.”

“Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.”

“I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children's stories. They were better than that. They just were.”

“I have always felt that violence was the last refuge of the incompetent, and empty threats the last sanctuary of the terminally inept.”

“Everybody going to be dead one day, just give them time.”

“The future came and went in the mildly discouraging way that futures do.”

“Only the phoenix rises and does not descend. And everything changes. And nothing is truly lost.”

“When writing a novel, that's pretty much entirely what life turns into: 'House burned down. Car stolen. Cat exploded. Did 1500 easy words, so all in all it was a pretty good day.”

“Anyone who believes what a cat tells him deserves all he gets.”

“You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it.”

“Every lover is, in his heart, a madman, and, in his head, a minstrel.”

“And did I pass?" The face of the old woman on my right was unreadable in the gathering dusk. On my left the younger woman said, "You don't pass or fail at being a person, dear.”

“And did I pass?" The face of the old woman on my right was unreadable in the gathering dusk. On my left the younger woman said, "You don't pass or fail at being a person, dear.”

“To absent friends, lost loves, old gods, and the season of mists; and may each and every one of us always give the devil his due.”

“You have to believe. Otherwise, it will never happen.”

“Have been unavoidably detained by the world. Expect us when you see us.”

“I mean, maybe I am crazy. I mean, maybe. But if this is all there is, then I don't want to be sane.”

“Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.”

“Even nothing cannot last forever.”

“A philosopher once asked, "Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at them because we are human?" Pointless, really..."Do the stars gaze back?" Now, that's a question.”

“That which is dreamed can never be lost, can never be undreamed.”

“Oh, monsters are scared," said Lettie. "That's why they're monsters.”

“I went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible.”