'Young man,' said Gladys, 'is everyone in your world like you?'

'No,' he said. 'Most of them are taller.'

'I meant,' said Gladys, 'are they all so immoral - or do I mean amoral?'

'Well,' Tod said, 'my father's like me, and my uncle's viler. But my cousin and at least two of my brothers-in-law are quite saintly really. Why?'

'Because,' she said, 'I expect to fit in quite well.

A Sudden Wild Magic ~ Diana Wynne Jones

This was another thing about Zillah that irritated Tod. She was so plumb ignorant of magework. It was almost as if she refused to learn on purpose, and possibly encouraged Marcus to make a noise so that she could leave. He allowed that this was partly due to the lack of confidence - someone, way back in Zillah's history, has evidently sapped her confidence pretty badly - but he also suspected that it was due to arrogance. In some secret place in her mind, Zillah felt that she has no need to learn.

A Sudden Wild Magic ~ Diana Wynne Jones

Is this drink toffee or kea, or neither?

Roz, A Sudden Wild Magic ~ Diana Wynne Jones

He had tried to conjecture why in hellspoke's name the law required him to come to this armpit of the universe. It was a very archaic law. The only modern justification that he had been able to come up with was that all this adversity was supposed to toughen his soul. To Tod's mind you did not make a soul tough by walking all over it: you just made dents.

A Sudden Wild Magic ~ Diana Wynne Jones

The Santa that showed up at my Kindergarden Christmas festival? I knew he was fake. And I never saw Mommy kissing Santa Claus, either. But I have to say, even as a little kid I knew better to believe in some old man who worked only one day a year.

Kyon ~ The Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi

I have absolutely no interest in normal humans.

Haruhi ~ The Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi

Feelings of love are just a temporary lapse in judgment. Like a mental illness.

Haruhi ~ The Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi

Nobody controls his own life, Ender.
The best you can do is choose to be controlled by good people, by people who love you.

Valentine, Ender's Game ~ Orson Scott Card

Everyone thinks Hitler got to power because of his armies, because they were willing to kill, and that's partly true, because in the real world power is always build on the threat of death and dishonor. But mostly he got to power on words, on the right words at the right time.

Peter, Ender's Game ~ Orson Scott Card

Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.

Valentine, Ender's Game ~ Orson Scott Card

I've lived too long with pain. I won't know who I am without it.

Ender, Ender's Game ~ Orson Scott Card

In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him,
then in that very moment I also love him.
I think it’s impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe,
and not love them the way they love themselves.
And then, in that very moment when I love them - ...I destroy them.
I make it impossible for them to ever hurt me again.
I grind them and grind them until they don’t exist.

Ender, Ender's Game ~ Orson Scott Card

He succeeded in being considered totally uninteresting. People left him alone. And that was all he wanted.

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer ~ Patrick Süskind

Odors have a power of persuasion stronger than that of words, appearances, emotions, or will. The persuasive power of an odor cannot be fended off, it enters into us like breath into our lungs, it fills us up, imbues us totally. There is no remedy for it.

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer ~ Patrick Süskind

He possessed the power. He held it in his hand. A power stronger than the power of money or the power of terror or the power of death: the invincible power to command the love of mankind. There was only one thing that power could not do: it could not make him able to smell himself.

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer ~ Patrick Süskind