"And then the time I was a clown and went to the hospital to visit the children, and I went into a room by myself where a little boy was, and his mother started to cry, and after I visit with the boy I went out and asked the mother if I had did anything wrong.  She said noit just that her sonhad been in there for six weeks and that was the first time she seen him smile."

“The feeling that you get.... when you know something is happening that will change you, and you don't want it to, but you can't stop it. And you know, for the first time, that there will now be a before and an after, a was and a will be. And that you will never again quite be the same person you were.”

Source : Jennifer Donnelly (2004). “A Gathering Light”, p.2, A&C Black

“A big part of financial freedom is having your heart and mind free from worry about the what-ifs of life.”

Source : Suze Orman (2006). “Suze Orman's Financial Guidebook: Put the 9 Steps to Work”, p.41, Crown Business

“Why, Yrael?” it said, as the last of the dark gave way to silver, and the shining sphere of metal sank slowly to the ground. “Why?” “Life,” said Yrael, who was more Mogget than it ever knew. “Fish and fowl, warm sun and shady trees, the field mice in the wheat, under the cool light of the moon.”

“Behold the pre-prophetic symbols of the planes of Never. Behold, behold this thisness! This isness.”

“I was very competitive. I hated losing. No matter what, I had to win.”

“I wasn't entirely sure, but a polite John Pritkin might be a sign of the apocalypse.”

Source : Karen Chance (2008). “Embrace the Night”, p.31, Penguin

“It is not a question of religion, or of creed, or of party; it is a question of declaring and maintaining the great American principle of eternal separation between Church and State.”

“I'm a ghost," said the small figure, then added, a little uncertainly, "Boo?”