The ways of love are strange and hard: The love you want is always barred; The love you have you want to change. The ways of love are hard and strang….

I've got a pretty good idea what children are, and we're not children. Children can lose sometimes, and nobody cares..

You take a step, then another. That's the journey. But to take a step with your eyes open is not a journey at all, it's a remaking of your own mind..

That was interesting, to find that it wasn't hunger that caused children to become bullies on the street. The bulliness was already in the child, and….

I know, you've been here a year, you think these people are normal. Well, they're not. WE'RE not. I look in the library, I call up books on my desk. ….

I want to be the kind of boy you are, thought Bean. But I don’t want to go through what you’ve been through to get there..

I don't hate you, I love you, you're part of myself, you're my heart and when you go it's my heart torn out and carried away--.

People love to hear the brag of the local boy, because they want him to be great, but the foreigner must deny that he has any outstanding virtue - th….

Miro, I'm so sorry. I always felt such pity for you humans because you could only think of one thing at a time and your memories were so imperfect an….

One judge is coughing his life out into bloody handkerchiefs and the other is burying his wife, and you think this is how God answers your prayers?.

When you walk on the face of a world, then forgiveness comes..

I need you to be clever, Bean. I need you to think of solutions to problems we haven't seen yet. I want you to try things that no one has ever tried ….

I doubt that America will come to Europe again. You'll be on your own against militant Islam..

He’d undone all he could. You can be sorry, and you can be forgiven, but you can’t call back the futures that your bad decisions lost.

Come in, Bean. Come in Julian Delphiki, longed-for child of good and loving parents. Come in, kidnapped child, hostage of fate. Come and talk to the ….

Of course, I also hear from critics who detest what I do, and while sometimes I feel rather proud of having made various the loathsome people or grou….

Do you know why Satan is so angry all the time? Because whenever he works a particularly clever bit of mischief God uses it to serve his own Rigteous….

there were crimes and quarrels, alongside kindness and cooperation; there were people who loved each other and people who did not; it was a human wor….

As long as you keep getting born, it's alright to die some times..

It's easy to manipulate your children when they're absolutely sure you're stupid..

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