Nothing firms up a friendship like a good-natured argument.

But we can also ask for something we are much more likely to get, and that is to find a person or two, somewhere in our travels, who will tell us that we are noble enough, whether it is true or not. We can ask for someone who will say, “You are noble enough,” and remind us of our good qualities when we have forgotten them, or cast them into doubt.

Of course you can trust me," Jake Hix said. "We read the same books.

Keep anyone with whom you can read in silence.

It is very difficult to make one's way in this world without being wicked at one time or another, when the world's way is so wicked to being with.

Sunny held Kit, and Violet held Klaus, and for a minute the four castaways did nothing but weep, letting their tears run down their faces and into the sea, which some have said is nothing but a library of all tears in history.