Dan Wells

Happiness is the most natural thing in the world when you have it, and the slowest, strangest, most impossible thing when you don't. It's like learning a foreign language: You can think about the words all you want, but you'll never be able to speak it until you suck up your courage and say them out loud.

I am stronger than my trials.

Life comes from death, and weakness teaches us strength.

Well, thanks for not shooting anyone, I guess", said Marcus. "My contribution was to somehow refrain from peeing myself. You can thank me later.

Fear is a ... it's a weird thing, when you think about it. People are only afraid of other things, they're never afraid of themselves.

If you can't know the truth, said Isolde, live the most awesome lie you can think off.

It's a pretty big shock to realise that the only people you can identify with are psychopathic killers.

I'm a good person, I said, because I know what good people are supposed to act like, and I copy them.