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“There is no darkness but ignorance.”

“The real opportunity for success lies within the person and not in the job.”

″‘Up to now,’ Miss Honey went on, ‘I have found it impossible to talk to anyone about my problems. I couldn’t face the embarrassment, and anyway I lack the courage. Any courage I had was knocked out of me when I was young. But now, all of a sudden I have a sort of desperate wish to tell everything to somebody. I know you are only a tiny little girl, but there is some kind of magic in you somewhere. I’ve seen it with my own eyes.‘”

“Petiron had been her friend, her ally and mentor. She had sung from the heart as he’d taught her: from the heart and the gut. Had he heard her song where he had gone?”

“And yet remarkable solutions to seemingly impossible problems often occur in these moments of clarity. It’s what gurus call higher consciousness. Biologists call it altered states. Psychologists call it super-sentience. And Christians call it answered prayer. Sometimes, divine revelation simply means adjusting your brain to hear what your heart already knows.”

Though utterly unlike in character, the twins got on remarkably well together, and seldom quarreled more than thrice a day.

“You’re still alive. And that means you’ll love and be loved...and in the end, nothing else really matters.”

“To see the Summer Sky Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie— True Poems flee—”

“I didn’t go to the moon, I went much further—for time is the longest distance between two places.”

“I am the Chosen One. I have to kill him. I need that memory.”