"My parents did love each other. Enough to forsake plans and factions. Enough to defy “faction before blood.” Blood before faction--no, love before faction, always. - Tris Prior"

“In my office, I like it quiet, so I can concentrate.”

“Magic has a spiritual element, and is considered very important and of value, and magicians have always been a little bit silly, so if you're going to portray a modern day magician, there's gotta be a little silliness.”

“Librarians and romance writers accomplish one mission better than anyone, including English teachers: we create readers for life - and what could be more fulfilling than that?”

“Religion makes them crazy. Not a woman I ever met wasn't crazy with religion.”

“The sad thing is, I was discovering that you almost have to make a joke of being good to strangers. Up and down the country, these people doing their good deeds were doubtless being seen as slightly eccentric, when in reality and in an ideal world they should be deemed the most normal people of all.”

Source : Danny Wallace (2010). “Join Me”, p.159, Random House

“Rock star do not jump!" The launch was cutting sharply, its skipper calling out a phrase that bore no relationship to the English language as Amy knew it. "Rock star in a hurry!" Nellie replied, one foot on the boat's gunwale.”

Source : Peter Lerangis (2011). “The 39 Clues #7: The Viper's Nest”, p.12, Scholastic Inc.

“I'd the upbringing a nun would envy. Until I was fifteen I was more familiar with Africa than my own body.”

Source : Entertaining Mr. Sloane act 1 (1964)

“Such prosperity as we have known it up to the present is the consequence of rapidly spending the planet's irreplaceable capital.”