Peace means something different from 'not fighting'. Those aren't peace advocates, they're 'stop fighting' advocates. Peace is an active and complex thing and sometimes fighting is part of what it takes to get it.

If I were omnipotent and omnibenevolent I wouldn't be so damn ineffable.

If you love books enough, books will love you back.

Avan was as religious as the next young dragon with his way to make in the world-which is to say that he held many traditional beliefs which he had never paused to examine, attended church because it would have seemed strange not to, rarely paid much attention when he was there, and found piety out of the pulpit thoroughly misplaced.

All farms are much alike everywhere, and all wild places have their own beauty.

What you can't pay back you pay forward.

Class is entirely intangible, and the way it affects things isn't subject to scientific analysis, and it's not supposed to be real but it's pervasive and powerful. See just like magic.

I am reading The Lord of the Rings. I suddenly wanted to. I almost know it by heart, but I can still sink right into it. I know no other book that is so much like going on a journey. When I put it down to this, I feel as if I am also waiting with Pippin for the echoes of that stone down the well.

I don't need to be a radical to think that who a dragon is counts more than birth or wealth, Selendra said, with what dignity she could.Why, that's the very definition of a radical, he retorted.

One of the things I've always liked about science fiction is the way it makes you think about things, and look at things from angles you'd never have thought about before.

Reading is awesome and flexible and fits around chores and earning money and building the future and whatever else I’m doing that day. My attitude towards reading is entirely Epicurean—reading is pleasure and I pursue it purely because I like it.

There may be stranger reasons for being alive. There are books There’s interlibrary loan. There are books you can fall into and pull up over your head.

Magic isn't inherently evil. But it does seem to be terribly bad for people.

You can't do magic with books unless they're very special copies.

It's wrong for libraries to have limited budgets.

I do not miss my toys. I wouldn't play with them anyway. I am fifteen. I miss my childhood.

I care more about the people in books than the people I see every day.

There's a sunrise and a sunset every single day, and they're absolutely free. Don't miss so many of them.