Quotes About Character

We are, largely, who we remember ourselves to be. That's why habits are so hard to break. If we know ourselves to be liars, we expect not to tell the truth. If we think of ourselves as honest, we try harder.

Crippled things are always more beautiful. It's the flaw that brings out beauty.

But now I wonder--what if everyone is pretty much the same and it's just a thousand small choices that add up to the person you are? No good or evil, no black and white, no inner demons or angels whispering the right answers in our ears like it's some cosmic SAT test. Just us, hour by hour, minute by minute, day by day, making the best choices we can. The thought is horrifying. If that's true, then there's no right choice. There's only choice.

It's the flaw that brings out the beauty.

What if the way I am is the way I am? What if, when everything else is different, I'm not?

Every child needs a tragedy to become truly interesting.

I am no murderer," says Cardan, surprising me. I would not have thought that was something to be proud of.

A king is not his crown.

I know how to be the witness to her grief. I don't know how to be this kind of villain.

If you were going to get someone's soul, Call thought, it would be nice if you also got their superior penmanship.

Have you ever heard that virtue is its own reward?' Cardan says pleasantly. 'That's because there's no other reward in it.

I don't now if you noticed , but the guy is a real jerk

It's the flaw that brings out beauty.

What if the way I am is the way I am? What if, when everything else is different, I'm not?

he is what he is. He cannot be other than his nature.

It doesn't make me like him any better, but for the first time he seems real. Not good, but real.

You must be particularly kind to people. Other kids can act like monsters, but not you.

Once there was a boy with a wicked heart,' the troll woman said. 'No, that's not right,' Cardan interrupted. 'That's not how it goes. He had a wicked tongue.' 'Boys change,' she told him. 'And so do stories.

We are, largely, who we remember ourselves to be. That's why habits are so hard to break. If we know ourselves to be liars, we expect not to tell the truth. If we think of ourselves as honest, we try harder.

it was as important to be a good winner as a good loser. I wanted Oak to give me an opportunity to be a good winner.

Aaron shook his head, disappointed. "Why do you have to be such a jerk?" he asked Call. "Because you never are," Call told him staunchly."I have to be a jerk for both of us.

Fiction---good fiction, anyway---is dream made flesh, given purpose and drive, and set on a quest to show us the best in us and to give us the power and the tools to dream beyond reality's 'merely good enough' to a vision of what is truly great... ...and then to give us the stories of men and women of character who in turn inspire those of us who dare to reach for the truly great within ourselves. THAT is why you write fiction.

To be both a speaker of words and a doer of deeds.

The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the physical presence.