Balderdash

“Books have a way of outlasting the hands that wrote them.”

“Fear's useless. Either something bad happens or it doesn't: If it doesn't, you've wasted time being afraid, and if it does, you've wasted time that you could have spent sharpening your weapons.”

“My book of maxims—life, distilled—would be short:

“The world is so big, information is so readily accessible, that you, as humans, especially those of you on Earth, can’t properly process it all. You are empathetic and kind when you relate, but when you don’t, you are cruel.”

“Lulu had asked "How can you tell when they're right or wrong?"

“Happily ever after, or even just together ever after, is not cheesy,” Wren said. “It’s the noblest, like, the most courageous thing two people can shoot for.”

“Underneath this veneer of slightly crazy and mildly socially retarded, I'm a complete disaster.”

“What kind of person would I be if I prided myself on being different from other girls?”

“Why raise children on the promise of magic? Why create a want in them that can never be satisfied—for revelation, for transformation—and then set them adrift in a bleak, pragmatic world?”

“Learn what you can. Use what you learn. You have not failed yet.”