“The human body is an amazing organism. It can go from dead tired to completely alert in a terrified blink.”

“I realised the amazing power of literature and of the human imagination generally: to make the dead live and to stop the living from dying.”

“The human heart was undeniably the stupidest organ in the body.”

“Once more Isambard looked completely terrified. Twice in one night! This was going to be a diary entry for the ages.”

“She hated having a heart. It was just an organ, she knew. An organ of the human body. Hearts didn't have really break. Emotion lay in the soul.”

“Now if you are going to win any battle you have to do onething. You have to make the mind run the body. Never let thebody tell the mind what to do. The body will always give up.It is always tired morning, noon, and night. But the body isnever tired if the mind is not tired. When you were youngerthe mind could make you dance all night, and the body wasnever tired... You've always got to make the mind take overand keep going.”