

“No. No, I’m not.” Then she said: “I’m somebody else. I just don’t know who that somebody else is yet.” “Well that’s what journeys are for,” Diamanda Murkitt said.”
― Abarat
― Abarat

“Call me cynical, but falling in love has to be the most delusional thing a person can do.”
― Eyes on Me
― Eyes on Me

“We humans have a nasty habit of deciding to believe that things we don’t actually understand are explained in some way that we make up. And the next thing we know, we’re killing each other over these imaginings.”
― A New World
― A New World

“Life is easier when one takes a moment to free the mind of thought. My thoughts wanted to destroy me, fulfil a prophesy of my destruction only they could bring true. My mind wanted to think the worst, protecting me for the worst times, yet I knew if I thought that way I surely would fail. I could not become my own worst enemy.”
― No More Time to Dance
― No More Time to Dance

“The problem of course is that it isn’t always possible to be kind to idiots, because they’re idiots.”
― Anxious People
― Anxious People
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