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“You are okay?" he asked. "Not eaten by monsters?""Not even a little bit." I showed him that I still had both arms and both legs, and Tyson clapped happily."Yay!" he said. "Now we can eat peanut butter sandwiches and ride fish ponies! We can fight monsters and see Annabeth and make things go BOOM!"I hoped he didn't mean all at the same time, but I told him absolutely, we'd have a lot of fun this summer.”

Rick Riordan,

“The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.”

Agatha Christie,

“The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.”

Barack Obama

“The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.”

Friedrich Nietzsche

“If you have the words, there's always a chance that you'll find the way.”

Seamus Heaney,

“Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you'll forget precisely what happened, but if a story touches you it will stay with you, haunting the places in your mind that you rarely ever visit.”

Neil Gaiman,

“Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart”

Eleanor Roosevelt

“I sit beside the fire and think Of all that I have seenOf meadow flowers and butterfliesIn summers that have beenOf yellow leaves and gossamerIn autumns that there wereWith morning mist and silver sunAnd wind upon my hairI sit beside the fire and thinkOf how the world will beWhen winter comes without a spring That I shall ever seeFor still there are so many thingsThat I have never seenIn every wood in every springThere is a different greenI sit beside the fire and thinkOf people long agoAnd people that will see a worldThat I shall never knowBut all the while I sit and thinkOf times there were beforeI listen for returning feet And voices at the door”

J.R.R. Tolkien

“Have you tried talking to her?" "No. We've been punching her in the face repeatedly. What? You don't think that will work?”

Cassandra Clare,

“With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.”

Margaret Mitchell

“Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.”

Mark Twain

“Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.”

Walt Whitman

“Watch out for intellect,because it knows so much it knows nothingand leaves you hanging upside down,mouthing knowledge as your heartfalls out of your mouth.”

Anne Sexton,

“All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.”

Walt Disney

“Imagination is like a muscle. I found out that the more I wrote, the bigger it got.”

Philip José Farmer

“The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.”

Friedrich Nietzsche

“Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”

C.G. Jung

“Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say “My tooth is achingâ€� than to say “My heart is broken.”

C.S. Lewis,

“Alone. Yes, that's the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn't hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym.”

Stephen King

“Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.”

Charles M. Schulz

“You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.”

Jack London

“When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again.”

Albert Einstein

“Usually we walk around constantly believing ourselves. "I'm okay" we say. "I'm alright". But sometimes the truth arrives on you and you can't get it off. That's when you realize that sometimes it isn't even an answer--it's a question. Even now, I wonder how much of my life is convinced.”

Markus Zusak,

“The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.”

Rachel Carson

“You think because he doesn't love you that you are worthless. You think that because he doesn't want you anymore that he is right -- that his judgement and opinion of you are correct. If he throws you out, then you are garbage. You think he belongs to you because you want to belong to him. Don't. It's a bad word, 'belong.' Especially when you put it with somebody you love. Love shouldn't be like that. Did you ever see the way the clouds love a mountain? They circle all around it; sometimes you can't even see the mountain for the clouds. But you know what? You go up top and what do you see? His head. The clouds never cover the head. His head pokes through, beacuse the clouds let him; they don't wrap him up. They let him keep his head up high, free, with nothing to hide him or bind him. You can't own a human being. You can't lose what you don't own. Suppose you did own him. Could you really love somebody who was absolutely nobody without you? You really want somebody like that? Somebody who falls apart when you walk out the door? You don't, do you? And neither does he. You're turning over your whole life to him. Your whole life, girl. And if it means so little to you that you can just give it away, hand it to him, then why should it mean any more to him? He can't value you more than you value yourself.”

Toni Morrison

“So light a fire!" Harry choked. "Yes...of course...but there's no wood!" ... "HAVE YOU GONE MAD!" Ron bellowed. "ARE YOU A WITCH OR NOT!”

J.K. Rowling,

“I decided it is better to scream. Silence is the real crime against humanity.”

Nadezhda Mandelstam,

“Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters”

Albert Einstein

“Will rolled up his sleeves. "We'll probably have to knock down the door--" "Or," said Jem, reaching out and giving the knob a twist, "not." The door swung open onto a rectangle of darkness. "Now, that's simply laziness," said Will.”

Cassandra Clare,

“I am both happy and sad at the same time, and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.”

Stephen Chbosky,

“Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.”

Margaret Atwood,

“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.”

Albert Camus

“Atticus said to Jem one day, "I’d rather you shot at tin cans in the backyard, but I know you’ll go after birds. Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit ‘em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird." That was the only time I ever heard Atticus say it was a sin to do something, and I asked Miss Maudie about it. "Your father’s right," she said. "Mockingbirds don’t do one thing except make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corn cribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.”

Harper Lee,

“Being with you never felt wrong. It's the one thing I did right. You're the one thing I did right.”

Becca Fitzpatrick,

“Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?”

Friedrich Nietzsche

“Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.”

Norman Vincent Peale

“For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.”

Neil deGrasse Tyson

“there is a place in the heart thatwill never be filleda spaceand even during thebest momentsandthe greatest timestimeswe will know itwe will know itmore thaneverthere is a place in the heart thatwill never be filledandwe will waitandwaitin that space.”

Charles bukowski

“I decided as long as I'm going to hell, I might as well do it thoroughly.”

Stephenie Meyer,

“You’ll get over it…â€� It’s the clichés that cause the trouble. To lose someone you love is to alter your life for ever. You don’t get over it because ‘itâ€� is the person you loved. The pain stops, there are new people, but the gap never closes. How could it? The particularness of someone who mattered enough to grieve over is not made anodyne by death. This hole in my heart is in the shape of you and no-one else can fit it. Why would I want them to?”

Jeanette Winterson,

“Do not set aside your happiness. Do not wait to be happy in the future. The best time to be happy is always now.”

Roy T. Bennett

“Good sex is like good bridge. If you don't have a good partner, you'd better have a good hand.”

Mae West

“...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?”

Vincent Willem van Gogh

“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.I love thee to the depth and breadth and heightMy soul can reach”

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“He was the crazy one who had painted himself black and defeated the world.She was the book thief without the words.Trust me, though, the words were on their way, and when they arrived, Liesel would hold them in her hands like the clouds, and she would wring them out like rain.”

Markus Zusak,

“Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.”

Oscar Wilde

“I was not a pet, not a doll, not an animal.I was a survivor, and I was strong.I would not be weak, or helpless again I would not, could not be broken. Tamed.”

Sarah J. Maas,

“Without you in my arms, I feel an emptiness in my soul. I find myself searching the crowds for your face - I know it's an impossibility, but I cannot help myself.”

Nicholas Sparks,

“Women want love to be a novel. Men, a short story.”

Daphne du Maurier

“When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.”

Abraham Lincoln

“Of course motivation is not permanent. But then, neither is bathing; but it is something you should do on a regular basis.”

Zig Ziglar,

“Never miss a good chance to shut up.”

Will Rogers

“If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved of you and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.”

Charlotte Brontë,

“I hate men who are afraid of women's strength.”

Anaïs Nin,

“Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired, women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.”

Oscar Wilde,

“Well-read people are less likely to be evil.”

Lemony Snicket,

“There will be a few times in your life when all your instincts will tell you to do something, something that defies logic, upsets your plans, and may seem crazy to others. When that happens, you do it. Listen to your instincts and ignore everything else. Ignore logic, ignore the odds, ignore the complications, and just go for it.”

Judith McNaught,

“I suffer from girlnextdooritis where the guy is friends with you and that's it.”

Taylor Swift

“What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.”

C. S. Lewis

“Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is your time on earth filled with glory.”

Betty Smith,

“Behind this mask there is more than just flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea... and ideas are bulletproof.”

Alan Moore,

“The course of true love never did run smooth.”

William Shakespeare,

“The best way out is always through.”

Robert Frost

“Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.”

Carl Sagan,

“How long was I asleep?" she whispered. He didn't respond. "How long was I asleep?" she asked again, and noticed a hint of red in his cheeks. "You were asleep, too?" "Until you began drooling on my shoulder.”

Sarah J. Maas,

“Sometimes, the best way to help someone is just to be near them.”

Veronica Roth,

“You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say that we are the ones that need help?”

Mark Twain

“I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish… You see, it is difficult to get all which I want. And then when I do not succeed I get mad with anger.”

Simone de Beauvoir

“What's up?" I asked.You tell me," he said. "You were the one about ready to start making out with Adrian."It was an experiment," I said. "It was part of my therapy."What the hell kind of therapy are you in?”

Richelle Mead,

“This is a new year. A new beginning. And things will change.”

Taylor Swift

“District 12: Where you can starve to death in safety.”

Suzanne Collins,

“Why do beautiful songs make you sad?' 'Because they aren't true.' 'Never?' 'Nothing is beautiful and true.”

Jonathan Safran Foer,

“There must be something in books, something we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay for nothing.”

Ray Bradbury,

“Now that she had nothing to lose, she was free.”

Paulo Coelho,

“Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.”

Anais Nin

“It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.”

C.S. Lewis,

“I guess by now I should know enough about loss to realize that you never really stop missing someone-you just learn to live around the huge gaping hole of their absence.”

Alyson Noel,

“What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.”

Doris Lessing,

“All thinking men are atheists.”

Ernest Hemingway,

“Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.”

Napoleon Bonaparte

“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'”

Isaac Asimov

“The sunlight claps the earth, and the moonbeams kiss the sea: what are all these kissings worth, if thou kiss not me?”

Percy Bysshe Shelley

“The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.”

Mother Teresa

“The worst type of crying wasn't the kind everyone could see--the wailing on street corners, the tearing at clothes. No, the worst kind happened when your soul wept and no matter what you did, there was no way to comfort it. A section withered and became a scar on the part of your soul that survived. For people like me and Echo, our souls contained more scar tissue than life.”

Katie McGarry,

“To survive, you must tell stories.”

Umberto Eco,

“A girl calls and asks, "Does it hurt very much to die?""Well, sweetheart," I tell her, "yes, but it hurts a lot more to keep living.”

Chuck Palahniuk,

“However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?”

Buddha Siddhartha Guatama Shakyamuni

“He who knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions.”

Confucius

“Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.”

Mother Teresa

“The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.”

Voltaire

“You get what anybody gets - you get a lifetime.”

Neil Gaiman,

“Feminism is the radical notion that women are human beings.”

Cheris Kramarae

“All human wisdom is contained in these two words - Wait and Hope”

Alexandre Dumas,

“Oh, we're playing nice now? Shall we have tea first? Brew up a nice pot of kiss-my-ass?”

Julie Kagawa,

“Stop fighting me!" he said, trying to pull on the arm he held.He was in a precarious position himself, straddling the rail as he tried to lean over far enough to get me and actually hold onto me.“Let go of me!â€� I yelled back.But he was too strong and managed to haul most of me over the rail, enough so that I wasn’t in total danger of falling again.See, here’s the thing. In that moment before I let go, I really had been contemplating my death. I’d come to terms with it and accepted it. I also, however, had known Dimitri might do something exactly like this. He was just that fast and that good. That was why I was holding my stake in the hand that was dangling free.I looked him in the eye. "I will always love you."Then I plunged the stake into his chest.It wasn’t as precise a blow as I would have liked, not with the skilled way he was dodging. I struggled to get the stake in deep enough to his heart, unsure if I could do it from this angle. Then, his struggles stopped. His eyes stared at me, stunned, and his lips parted, almost into a smile, albeit a grisly and pained one."That’s what I was supposed to say. . .â€� he gasped out.Those were his last words.”

Richelle Mead,

“No good deed goes unpunished.”

Oscar Wilde

“The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.”

Maya Angelou

“The things we love destroy us every time, lad. Remember that.”

George R.R. Martin,

“Man is the cruelest animal.”

Friedrich Nietzsche

“Always be a first rate version of yourself and not a second rate version of someone else.”

Judy Garland