"Will you give the girl to me?" she said. "Will you let me try?" He nodded, dizzy with relief. "Please, Willo. Please. Save her. It doesn't matter...what happens to me."

“Be vigilant! Be vigilant! If an evil is minor, resist it nonetheless. If a good deed is trifling, perform it all the same. Only wisdom and virtue can truly win men's devotion.”

“The greatest barrier to consciousness is the belief that one is already conscious.”

Source : "The Psychology of Man's Possible Evolution". Book by P.D. Ouspensky, 1950.

“We believe in fair exchange rates and Japan doesn't practice that. They have massive U.S. dollar reserves, and they use them to intervene regularly.”

“If children are studying the 20th century, I'm in their text books.”

“Cormac interrupted. 'Maybe I oughta shoot you both, put you both out of your misery.”

Source : Carrie Vaughn (2010). “Kitty Takes a Holiday”, p.46, Hachette UK

“I think it is extremely interesting to think that, in some cases, vice might be, finally, more redemptive than virtue.”

Source : Interview with Matt Borondy, www.identitytheory.com. February 12, 2005.

“I was born in London and raised in Rome until I was 4. Then we went back to London, where I went to school.”

“Every student of physics knows the axiom 'nature abhors a vacuum.' A little known corollary is that 'rowing coaches detest sending their crews in early.' Coaches will always find something to fill the end-of-practice vacuum.”