Tony DiTerlizzi > Quotes

“Tiny-perhaps." Rovender kept his eyes fixed on the rings. "Insignificant-never, Eva Nine. No living thing is insignificant.”
― Tony DiTerlizzi, The Search for WondLa

“Never abandon imagination”
― Tony DiTerlizzi, Jimmy Zangwow's Out-of-This-World Moon-Pie Adventure

“The real question one should ask when presented with a puzzle is, ‘Should I solve it? Do I really need to know the answer?”
― Tony DiTerlizzi, The Search for WondLa

“Your home is where your family is... Where someone waits for you and thinks about you.”
― Tony DiTerlizzi, A Hero For WondLa

“Clever is as clever does.”
― Tony DiTerlizzi, Lucinda's Secret

“Sure, I eat because I have to. But I also eat because I want to. It is one of life’s few pleasures.”
― Tony DiTerlizzi, The Search for WondLa

“So, Eva Nine, you must sometimes disregard what someone is saying and focus instead on what they are doing. Watch and observe. That is when one reveals his true self.”
― Tony DiTerlizzi, A Hero For WondLa

“Despite what you hear and say there will always be that one voice that will always be true to you.”
― Tony DiTerlizzi, The Search for WondLa

“No living thing is insignificant.”
― Tony DiTerlizzi, The Search for WondLa

“The folly of humankind is that it believes it is impervious to decay”
― Tony DiTerlizzi, The Search for WondLa

“It reveals that people are confusing."
Rovender corrected her. "Not Confusing. Complex.”
― Tony DiTerlizzi, A Hero For WondLa

“Welcome to the real world, Mother Robot, a beautiful and dangerous place. Now you can truly begin to live.”
― Tony DiTerlizzi, The Search for WondLa

“Strength is not just in muscle and bone," Rovender said
"That is right," Soth added. "Emotional strength is more powerful.”
― Tony DiTerlizzi, A Hero For WondLa

“A full stomach allows the brain to be hungry for common sense.”
― Tony DiTerlizzi, Kenny & the Dragon

“Some things we must learn through experience. That is how one truly lives." -Rovender”
― Tony DiTerlizzi, A Hero For WondLa

“So is death a journey? Is it to another place?" she asked. "Is it another planet?"
"Many have wondered this very question,"replied rovender. "But there is an old Caerulan saying: When your journey reaches its destination here, may you walk on through the memories of those still with us.”
― Tony DiTerlizzi, A Hero For WondLa

“Inkblot shadows of the canopy swayed and rolled on the forest floor in the cloudy light, almost as if the ground itself was moving.”
― Tony DiTerlizzi, The Search for WondLa

“Your mother contained a good spirit. A loving spirit. A spirit that will not cease to exist.
Eva looked at him, her brows furrowed.
Rovender placed his arm around Eva's shoulders. "You see, she lives within you now, in all of the lessons that she taught you. Lessons you will never forget. Lessons you will always carry with you... and will one day pass on.”
― Tony DiTerlizzi, The Search for WondLa

“We are born, we live, and we perish, perhaps to be born again in some other form...Galaxies are but one living entity burning with the energy from all of us. Life and death are but siblings who turn the universe continually. Endlessly.”
― Tony DiTerlizzi, The Battle For WondLa

“I feel so...tiny.” Eva took in the entire starlit expanse. “So...insignificant.”
“Tiny-perhaps." Rovender kept his eyes fixed on the rings. "Insignificant-never, Eva Nine. No living thing is insignificant.”
― Tony DiTerlizzi

“It is because they are happier when they are together. They are safe. They are strong.”
― Tony DiTerlizzi, A Hero For WondLa

“A child needs his parent at all times, Father. Not just when life is smiling down upon him" -Rovender”
― Tony DiTerlizzi, A Hero For WondLa

“But our knowledge, the things we learn, can carry on in others after we are gone...The toil of this journey, our journey, is the man for those who will follow.”
― Tony DiTerlizzi, The Battle For WondLa

“Your answers lie here," Rovender said, gesturing around the library.”
― Tony DiTerlizzi, The Search for WondLa

“But our knowledge, the things we learn, can carry on in others after we are gone...The toil of this journey, our journey, is the map for those who will follow.”
― Tony DiTerlizzi, The Battle For WondLa

“As Antiquus's son, I was next in line to be the leader of my village... But leadership is not inherited. It is earned through action.”
― Tony DiTerlizzi, A Hero For WondLa

“—Los elfos —dijo el phooka, mirando a Mallory con expresión ofendida—. ¿Debo ser directo cuando os indique directamente el camino directo hacia los elfos?
—¿Qué es lo que quieren? —preguntó Jared.
—Tienen lo que vosotros queréis y quieren lo que vosotros tenéis —contestó el phooka.
Mallory soltó un gruñido.
—Quedamos en que si las cosas se ponían raras regresaríamos a casa —dijo Mallory, apuntando al phooka con su estoque—. Y más raro que esa cosa, imposible.”
― Tony DiTerlizzi, Lucinda's Secret

“Man was not designed to eat pills and powders and all the other chemicals they pump you full of. We were meant to live off the land in harmony with it. Not in some safety bubble.”
― Tony DiTerlizzi, A Hero For WondLa

“Jared looked around the room. It was a smallish library, with one huge desk in the center. On it was an open book and a pair of old-fashioned, round glasses that caught the candlelight.”
― Tony DiTerlizzi, The Field Guide

“We have someone with us who is dying--someone whose spirit is ready to leave this world, she thought to the tree. But he wants to be with his clan. With his forest. Will you take us?”
― Tony DiTerlizzi, A Hero For WondLa