“Maybe you can afford to wait. Maybe for you there's a tomorrow. Maybe for you there's one thousand tomorrows, or three thousand, or ten, so much time you can bathe in it, roll around it, let it slide like coins through you fingers. So much time you can waste it.But for some of us there's only today. And the truth is, you never really know.”


“Don't stop there. I suppose there are also, what, vampires and werewolves and zombies?""Of course there are. Although you mostly find zombies farther south, where the voudun priests are.""What about mummies? Do they only hang around Egypt?""Don't be ridiculous. No one believes in mummies.”


“One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.”


“You speak an infinite deal of nothing.”


“It doesn't interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart's longing.It doesn't interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love, for your dream, for the adventure of being alive. It doesn't interest me what planets are squaring your moon. I want to know if you have touched the center of your own sorrow, if you have been opened by life's betrayals or have become shriveled and closed from fear of further pain!I want to know if you can sit with pain, mine or your own, without moving to hide it or fade it, or fix it. I want to know if you can be with joy, mine or your own, if you can dance with wildness and let the ecstasy fill you to the tips of your fingers and toes without cautioning us to be careful, to be realistic, to remember the limitations of being human. It doesn't interest me if the story you are telling me is true. I want to know if you can disappoint another to be true to yourself; if you can bear the accusation of betrayal and not betray your own soul; if you can be faithlessand therefore trustworthy. I want to know if you can see beauty even when it's not pretty, every day,and if you can source your own life from its presence. I want to know if you can live with failure, yours and mine, and still stand on the edge of the lake and shout to the silver of the full moon, â€œYes!â€�It doesn't interest me to know where you live or how much money you have. I want to know if you can get up, after the night of grief and despair, weary and bruised to the bone, and do what needs to be done to feed the children. It doesn't interest me who you know or how you came to be here. I want to know if you will stand in the center of the fire with me and not shrink back. It doesn't interest me where or what or with whom you have studied. I want to know what sustains you, from the inside, when all else falls away. I want to know if you can be alone with yourself and if you truly like the company you keep in the empty moments.”


“All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.”


“Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book. And then there are books like An Imperial Affliction, which you can't tell people about, books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like betrayal”


“A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.”


“He does something to me, that boy. Every time. Itâ€™s his only detriment. He steps on my heart. He makes me cry.”


“Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.”


“You know, when it works, love is pretty amazing. It's not overrated. There's a reason for all those songs.”


“To me, Fearless is not the absense of fear. It's not being completely unafraid. To me, Fearless is having fears. Fearless is having doubts. Lots of them. To me, Fearless is living in spite of those things that scare you to death.”


“But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.”


“The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.”


“Say 'provoking' again. Your mouth looks provocative when you do.”


“There are three types of lies -- lies, damn lies, and statistics.”


“Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.”


“I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.”


“Don't be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life. You don't have to live forever, you just have to live.”


“The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.”


“I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.”


“Don't you think it's better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life?”


“I can listen no longer in silence. I must speak to you by such means as are within my reach. You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own than when you almost broke it, eight years and a half ago. Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you. Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant. You alone have brought me to Bath. For you alone, I think and plan. Have you not seen this? Can you fail to have understood my wishes? I had not waited even these ten days, could I have read your feelings, as I think you must have penetrated mine. I can hardly write. I am every instant hearing something which overpowers me. You sink your voice, but I can distinguish the tones of that voice when they would be lost on others. Too good, too excellent creature! You do us justice, indeed. You do believe that there is true attachment and constancy among men. Believe it to be most fervent, most undeviating, in F. W.I must go, uncertain of my fate; but I shall return hither, or follow your party, as soon as possible. A word, a look, will be enough to decide whether I enter your father's house this evening or never.”


“Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.”


“You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. This is a power you can cultivate. If you want to control things in your life so bad, work on the mind. That's the only thing you should be trying to control.”


“You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.”


“Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.”


“Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.”


“You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.”


“You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?”


“People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.”


“â€ŽThough nobody can go back and make a new beginning... Anyone can start over and make a new ending.”


“Yeah, Quirrell was a great teacher. There was just that minor drawback of him having Lord Voldemort sticking out of the back of his head!”


“Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.”


“Grover was sniffing the wind, looking nervous. He fished out his acorns and threw them into the sand, then played his pipes. They rearranged themselves in a pattern that made no sense to me, but Grover looked concerned. "That's us," he said. "Those five nuts right there." "Which one is me?" I asked. "The little deformed one," Zoe suggested. "Oh, shut up.”


“Tonight I can write the saddest linesI loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.”


“There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.”


“We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.”


“An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.”


“I will have you without armor, Kaz Brekker. Or I will not have you at all.”


“You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.”


“Itâ€™s probably not just by chance that Iâ€™m alone. It would be very hard for a man to live with me, unless heâ€™s terribly strong. And if heâ€™s stronger than I, Iâ€™m the one who canâ€™t live with him. â€¦ Iâ€™m neither smart nor stupid, but I donâ€™t think Iâ€™m a run-of-the-mill person. Iâ€™ve been in business without being a businesswoman, Iâ€™ve loved without being a woman made only for love. The two men Iâ€™ve loved, I think, will remember me, on earth or in heaven, because men always remember a woman who caused them concern and uneasiness. Iâ€™ve done my best, in regard to people and to life, without precepts, but with a taste for justice.”


“It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.”


“Live in the present, remember the past, and fear not the future, for it doesn't exist and never shall. There is only now.”


“It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.”


“And when her lips met mine, I knew that I could live to be a hundred and visit every country in the world, but nothing would ever compare to that single moment when I first kissed the girl of my dreams and knew that my love would last forever.”


“Welcome to the wonderful world of jealousy, he thought. For the price of admission, you get a splitting headache, a nearly irresistable urge to commit murder, and an inferiority complex. Yippee.”


“Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.”


“Don't feel bad, I'm usually about to die.”


“I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.”


“The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.”


“Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny.”


“There are years that ask questions and years that answer.”


“When I discover who I am, Iâ€™ll be free.”


“We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.”


“You here to finish me off, Sweetheart?”


“Look after my heart - I've left it with you.”


“Growing apart doesn't change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled. I'm glad for that.”


“If you ever find yourself in the wrong story, leave.”


“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.”


“The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image. If in loving them we do not love what they are, but only their potential likeness to ourselves, then we do not love them: we only love the reflection of ourselves we find in them”


“If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.”


“I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.”


“Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get”


“Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of oneâ€™s own self.”


“Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.”


“Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.”


“The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart.”


“So you're always honest," I said."Aren't you?""No," I told him. "I'm not.""Well, that's good to know, I guess.""I'm not saying I'm a liar," I told him. He raised his eyebrows. "That's not how I meant it, anyways.""How'd you mean it, then?""I just...I don't always say what I feel.""Why not?""Because the truth sometimes hurts," I said."Yeah," he said. "So do lies, though.”


“The meek may inherit the earth, but at the moment it belongs to the conceited. Like me.”


“If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.”


“Books should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf, don't you agree?”


“Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused.”


“When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.”


“So it's you and a syringe against the Capitol? See, this is why no one lets you make the plans.”


“You must make a decision that you are going to move on. It wont happen automatically. You will have to rise up and say, â€˜I donâ€™t care how hard this is, I donâ€™t care how disappointed I am, Iâ€™m not going to let this get the best of me. Iâ€™m moving on with my life.”


“Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts.”


“Be brave to stand for what you believe in even if you stand alone.”


“The best moments in reading are when you come across something â€“ a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things â€“ which you had thought special and particular to you. Now here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out and taken yours.”


“I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair.Silent and starving, I prowl through the streets. Bread does not nourish me, dawn disrupts me, all day I hunt for the liquid measure of your steps. I hunger for your sleek laugh, your hands the color of a savage harvest, hunger for the pale stones of your fingernails, I want to eat your skin like a whole almond. I want to eat the sunbeam flaring in your lovely body, the sovereign nose of your arrogant face, I want to eat the fleeting shade of your lashes, and I pace around hungry, sniffing the twilight, hunting for you, for your hot heart, Like a puma in the barrens of Quitratue.”


“If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.”


“Clary, Despite everything, I can't bear the thought of this ring being lost forever, any more then I can bear the thought of leaving you forever. And though I have no choice about the one, at least I can choose about the other. I'm leaving you our family ring because you have as much right to it as I do.I'm writing this watching the sun come up. You're asleep, dreams moving behind your restless eyelids. I wish I knew what you were thinking. I wish I could slip into your head and see the world the way you do. I wish I could see myself the way you do. But maybe I dont want to see that. Maybe it would make me feel even more than I already do that I'm perpetuating some kind of Great Lie on you, and I couldn't stand that. I belong to you. You could do anything you wanted with me and I would let you. You could ask anything of me and I'd break myself trying to make you happy. My heart tells me this is the best and greatest feeling I have ever had. But my mind knows the difference between wanting what you can't have and wanting what you shouldn't want. And I shouldn't want you.All night I've watched you sleeping, watched the moonlight come and go, casting its shadows across your face in black and white. I've never seen anything more beautiful. I think of the life we could have had if things were different, a life where this night is not a singular event, separate from everything else that's real, but every night. But things aren't different, and I can't look at you without feeling like I've tricked you into loving me.The truth no one is willing to say out loud is that no one has a shot against Valentine but me. I can get close to him like no one else can. I can pretend I want to join him and he'll believe me, up until that last moment where I end it all, one way or another. I have something of Sebastian's; I can track him to where my father's hiding, and that's what I'm going to do. So I lied to you last night. I said I just wanted one night with you. But I want every night with you. And that's why I have to slip out of your window now, like a coward. Because if I had to tell you this to your face, I couldn't make myself go. I don't blame you if you hate me, I wish you would. As long as I can still dream, I will dream of you. _Jace”


“Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?”


“If I got rid of my demons, Iâ€™d lose my angels.”


“Don't feel sorry for yourself. Only assholes do that.”


“He smiled understandingly-much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced--or seemed to face--the whole eternal world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey.”


“The only way to get through life is to laugh your way through it. You either have to laugh or cry. I prefer to laugh. Crying gives me a headache.”


“How do you spell 'love'?" - Piglet"You don't spell it...you feel it." - Pooh”


“It's just that most really good-looking people are stupid, so I exceed expectations.''Right, it's primarily his hotness,' I said.'It can be sort of blinding,' he said.'It actually did blind our friend Isaac,' I said.'Terrible tragedy, that. But can I help my own deadly beauty?''You cannot.''It is my burden, this beautiful face.''Not to mention your body.''Seriously, don't even get me started on my hot bod. You don't want to see me naked, Dave. Seeing me naked actually took Hazel Grace's breath away,' he said, nodding toward the oxygen tank.”


“Life, he realize, was much like a song. In the beginning there is mystery, in the end there is confirmation, but it's in the middle where all the emotion resides to make the whole thing worthwhile.”


“I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.”


“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedomsâ€”to choose oneâ€™s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose oneâ€™s own way.”


“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”


“You can't measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange.”


“You couldn't relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You had to accept it as a whole--like the world, or the person you loved.”


“â€ŽLife is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.”


“There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.”


“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.”


“Love is a temporary madness, it erupts like volcanoes and then subsides. And when it subsides, you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion, it is not the desire to mate every second minute of the day, it is not lying awake at night imagining that he is kissing every cranny of your body. No, don't blush, I am telling you some truths. That is just being "in love", which any fool can do. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident.”


“That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.”


“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”


“It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.”


“No woman really wants a man to carry her off; she only wants him to want to do it.”


“Every great love starts with a great story...”


“But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.”


“Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.”


“Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you've got a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies-"God damn it, you've got to be kind.”


“He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain is usually the person who locks up the maiden and throws away the key. He was the one who let me out.”


“There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.”


“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”


“The past has no power over the present moment.”


“Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.”


“In politics, If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.”


“It's a lot easier to be lost than found. It's the reason we're always searching and rarely discovered--so many locks not enough keys.”


“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”


“Maybe...you'll fall in love with me all over again.""Hell," I said, "I love you enough now. What do you want to do? Ruin me?""Yes. I want to ruin you.""Good," I said. "That's what I want too.”


“Why were you lurking under our window?""Yes - yes, good point, Petunia! What were you doing under our windows, boy?""Listening to the news," said Harry in a resigned voice.His aunt and uncle exchanged looks of outrage."Listening to the news! Again?""Well, it changes every day, you see," said Harry.”


“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.”


“Knock, And He'll open the doorVanish, And He'll make you shine like the sunFall, And He'll raise you to the heavensBecome nothing, And He'll turn you into everything.”


“You will lose someone you canâ€™t live without,and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesnâ€™t seal back up. And you come through. Itâ€™s like having a broken leg that never heals perfectlyâ€”that still hurts when the weather gets cold, but you learn to dance with the limp.”


“Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.”


“I'm not young enough to know everything.”


“It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.”


“And I thought about how many people have loved those songs. And how many people got through a lot of bad times because of those songs. And how many people enjoyed good times with those songs. And how much those songs really mean. I think it would be great to have written one of those songs. I bet if I wrote one of them, I would be very proud. I hope the people who wrote those songs are happy. I hope they feel it's enough. I really do because they've made me happy. And I'm only one person.”


“One can never have enough socks," said Dumbledore. "Another Christmas has come and gone and I didn't get a single pair. People will insist on giving me books.”


“I nodded, looking at Rachel with respect. "You hit the Lord of the Titans in the eye with a blue plastic hairbrush.”


“you can, you should, and if youâ€™re brave enough to start, you will.”


“I came from a real tough neighborhood. Once a guy pulled a knife on me. I knew he wasn't a professional, the knife had butter on it.”


“Some people say, â€œNever let them see you cry.â€� I say, if youâ€™re so mad you could just cry, then cry. It terrifies everyone.”


“Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.”


“The heart is an arrow. It demands aim to land true.”


“If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.”


“Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”


“If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.”


“Though she be but little, she is fierce!”


“Remember to always be yourself. Unless you suck.”


“I could not tell you if I loved you the first moment I saw you, or if it was the second or third or fourth. But I remember the first moment I looked at you walking toward me and realized that somehow the rest of the world seemed to vanish when I was with you.”


“When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.”


“Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't. I'm not surprised some people prefer books.”


“I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.”


“All great and precious things are lonely.”


“I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.”


“I've got nothing to do today but smile.”


“A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.”


“If you are a dreamer come inIf you are a dreamer a wisher a liarA hoper a pray-er a magic-bean-buyerIf youre a pretender com sit by my fireFor we have some flax golden tales to spinCome in! Come in!”


“And then he gives me a smile that just seems so genuinely sweet with just the right touch of shyness that unexpected warmth rushes through me.”


“It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.”


“If you don't know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.”


“The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.”


“The real story of the Fleece: there were these two children of Zeus, Cadmus and Europa, okay? They were about to get offered up as human sacrifices, when they prayed to Zeus to save them. So Zeus sent this magical flying ram with golden wool, which picked them up in Greece and carried them all the way to Colchis in Asia Minor. Well, actually it carried Cadmus. Europa fell off and died along the way, but that's not important.""It was probably important to her.”


“Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do.”


“I'm not going to wear a red dress," she said."It would look stunning, My Lady," she called.She spoke to the bubbles gathered on the surface of the water. "If there's anyone I wish to stun at dinner, I'll hit him in the face.”


“These violent delights have violent endsAnd in their triump die, like fire and powderWhich, as they kiss, consume”


“What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life.”


“She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.”


“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.”


“What if it lines up like it did in the Trojan War ... Athena versus Poseidon?""I don't know. But I just know that I'll be fighting next to you.""Why?""Because you're my friend, Seaweed Brain. Any more stupid questions?”


“It was, he thought, the difference between being dragged into the arena to face a battle to the death and walking into the arena with your head held high. Some people, perhaps, would say that there was little to choose between the two ways, but Dumbledore knew - and so do I, thought Harry, with a rush of fierce pride, and so did my parents - that there was all the difference in the world.”


“Letting go doesn't mean that you don't care about someone anymore. It's just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself.”


“I stood still, vision blurring, and in that moment, I heard my heart break. It was a small, clean sound, like the snapping of a flower's stem.”


“Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.”


“We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”


“Before you, Bella, my life was like a moonless night. Very dark, but there were stars, points of light and reason. ...And then you shot across my sky like a meteor. Suddenly everything was on fire; there was brilliancy, there was beauty. When you were gone, when the meteor had fallen over the horizon, everything went black. Nothing had changed, but my eyes were blinded by the light. I couldnâ€™t see the stars anymore. And there was no more reason, for anything.”


“It is my belief... that the truth is generally preferable to lies.”


“Any fool knows men and women think differently at times, but the biggest difference is this. Men forget, but never forgive; women forgive, but never forget.”


“I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.”


“The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because its only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on. If you can change the way people think. The way they see themselves. The way they see the world. You can change the way people live their lives. That's the only lasting thing you can create.”


“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.”


“Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.”


“I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.”


“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.”


“All the secrets of the world are contained in books. Read at your own risk.”


“Better to be strong than pretty and useless.”


“I realize only one person will be damaged beyond repair if Peeta dies. Me.”


“Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.”


“When I am with you, we stay up all night.When you're not here, I can't go to sleep.Praise God for those two insomnias!And the difference between them.”


“Be with me always - take any form - drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! it is unutterable! I can not live without my life! I can not live without my soul!”


“You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.”


“A DEFINITION NOT FOUNDIN THE DICTIONARYNot leaving: an act of trust and love,often deciphered by children”


“A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”


“Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we think faster than we speak. Probably so we can think twice.”


“Was it hard?" I ask.Letting go?"Not as hard as holding on to something that wasn't real.”


“People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.”


“Great things happen to those who don't stop believing, trying, learning, and being grateful.”


“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”


“You will find that it is necessary to let things go; simply for the reason that they are heavy. So let them go, let go of them. I tie no weights to my ankles.”


“From the moment I picked up your book until I put it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.”


“Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart.”


“Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.”


“There is no exquisite beautyâ€¦ without some strangeness in the proportion.”


“Of all the trees we could've hit, we had to get one that hits back.”


“Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.”


“I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.”


“The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough of is love.”


“Maybe everyone can live beyond what they're capable of.”


“Do not fear failure but rather fear not trying.”


“A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.”


“A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.”


“Don't tell me," Jace said, "Simon's turned himself into an ocelot and you want me to do something about it before Isabelle makes him into a stole. Well, you'll have have to wait till tomorrow. I'm out of commission." He pointed at himself - he was wearing blue pajamas with a hole in the sleeve. "Look. Jammies.""Jace," Clary said, "this is important.""Don't tell me," he said. "You've got a drawing emergency. You need a nude model. Well, I'm not in the mood. You could always ask Hodge," he said as an afterthought. "I hear he'll do anything for a -""JACE!" she interrupted him, her voice rising to a scream. "JUST SHUT UP FOR A SECOND AND LISTEN, WILL YOU?”


“Stay gold, Ponyboy. Stay gold . . .â€� The pillow seemed to sink a little, and Johnny died.”


“Never lose hope. Storms make people stronger and never last forever.”


“I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.”


“The capacity for friendship is God's way of apologizing for our families.”


“The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then â€” to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn.”


“If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.”


“I'm tough, I'm ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay.”


“You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.”


“The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.”


“Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.”


“He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.”


“You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.”


“Even if you are on the right track, youâ€™ll get run over if you just sit there.”


“Don't Gain The World & Lose Your Soul, Wisdom Is Better Than Silver Or Gold.”


“When people don't express themselves, they die one piece at a time.”


“A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.”


“It's amazing how a little tomorrow can make up for a whole lot of yesterday.”


“Great minds are always feared by lesser minds.”


“To be, or not to be: that is the question:Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to sufferThe slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep;No more; and by a sleep to say we endThe heart-ache and the thousand natural shocksThat flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummationDevoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep;To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub;For in that sleep of death what dreams may comeWhen we have shuffled off this mortal coil,Must give us pause: there's the respectThat makes calamity of so long life;For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,The pangs of despised love, the law's delay,The insolence of office and the spurnsThat patient merit of the unworthy takes,When he himself might his quietus makeWith a bare bodkin? who would fardels bear,To grunt and sweat under a weary life,But that the dread of something after death,The undiscover'd country from whose bournNo traveller returns, puzzles the willAnd makes us rather bear those ills we haveThan fly to others that we know not of?Thus conscience does make cowards of us all;And thus the native hue of resolutionIs sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,And enterprises of great pith and momentWith this regard their currents turn awry,And lose the name of action.--Soft you now!The fair Ophelia! Nymph, in thy orisonsBe all my sins remember'd!”


“I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of.”


“Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.”


“Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.”


“And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utterâ€” they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long.”


“love the life you live.live the life you love.”


“Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.”


“Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.”


“It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.”


“It's funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality.”


“Every now and then I like to do as I'm told, just to confuse people.”


“I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom.”


“You endure what is unbearable, and you bear it. That is all.”


“The best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love.”


“Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.”


“You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming.”


“I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: Iâ€™m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I donâ€™t accept his claim to be God. That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic â€” on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg â€” or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God, but let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.”


“All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his.”


“Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.”


“Always find opportunities to make someone smile, and to offer random acts of kindness in everyday life.”


“Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.”


“Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand.”


“My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.”


“He was my mum and dad's best friend. He's a convicted murderer, but he's broken out of wizard prison and he's on the run. He likes to keep in touch with me, though...keep up with my news...check if I'm happy...”


“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”


“Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”


“Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.”


“Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.”


“And he took her in his arms and kissed her under the sunlit sky, and he cared not that they stood high upon the walls in the sight of many.”


“Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves. So anyone who's in love gets sad when they think of their lover. It's like stepping back inside a room you have fond memories of, one you haven't seen in a long time.”


“Sometimes when I look at you, I feel I'm gazing at a distant star. It's dazzling, but the light is from tens of thousands of years ago.Maybe the star doesn't even exist any more. Yet sometimes that light seems more real to me than anything.”


“Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.”


“Art and love are the same thing: Itâ€™s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.”


“The only way that we can live, is if we grow. The only way that we can grow is if we change. The only way that we can change is if we learn. The only way we can learn is if we are exposed. And the only way that we can become exposed is if we throw ourselves out into the open. Do it. Throw yourself.”


“And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone.”


“We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations.”


“Perhaps the greatest faculty our minds possess is the ability to cope with pain. Classic thinking teaches us of the four doors of the mind, which everyone moves through according to their need.First is the door of sleep. Sleep offers us a retreat from the world and all its pain. Sleep marks passing time, giving us distance from the things that have hurt us. When a person is wounded they will often fall unconscious. Similarly, someone who hears traumatic news will often swoon or faint. This is the mind's way of protecting itself from pain by stepping through the first door.Second is the door of forgetting. Some wounds are too deep to heal, or too deep to heal quickly. In addition, many memories are simply painful, and there is no healing to be done. The saying 'time heals all wounds' is false. Time heals most wounds. The rest are hidden behind this door.Third is the door of madness. There are times when the mind is dealt such a blow it hides itself in insanity. While this may not seem beneficial, it is. There are times when reality is nothing but pain, and to escape that pain the mind must leave reality behind. Last is the door of death. The final resort. Nothing can hurt us after we are dead, or so we have been told.”


“Ah! There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort.”


“Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?”


“Don't be so humble - you are not that great.”


“A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.”


“I had already found that it was not good to be alone, and so made companionship with what there was around me, sometimes with the universe and sometimes with my own insignificant self; but my books were always my friends, let fail all else.”


“My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.”


“I have come to accept the feeling of not knowing where I am going. And I have trained myself to love it. Because it is only when we are suspended in mid-air with no landing in sight, that we force our wings to unravel and alas begin our flight. And as we fly, we still may not know where we are going to. But the miracle is in the unfolding of the wings. You may not know where you're going, but you know that so long as you spread your wings, the winds will carry you.”


“Stuff your eyes with wonder, he said, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.”


“There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.”


“A truth that's told with bad intentBeats all the lies you can invent.”


“What are all these?" Clary asked."Vials of holy water, blessed knives, steel and silver blades," Jace said, piling the weapons on the floor beside him, "electrum wire - not much use at the moment but it's always good to have spares - silver bullets, charms of protetion, crucifixes, stars of David-""Jesus," said Clary"I doubt he'd fit.""Jace." Clary was appalled.”


“Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around - nobody big, I mean - except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff - I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be.”


“What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”


“One day you will kiss a man you can't breathe without, and find that breath is of little consequence.”


“Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one.”


“I am constantly torn between killing myself and killing everyone around me.”


“Do I contradict myself?Very well then I contradict myself,(I am large, I contain multitudes.)”


“If things start happening, don't worry, don't stew, just go right along and you'll start happening too.”


“The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.”


“Did you know that for pretty much the entire history of the human species, the average life span was less than thirty years? You could count on ten years or so of real adulthood, right? There was no planning for retirement, There was no planning for a career. There was no planning. No time for plannning. No time for a future. But then the life spans started getting longer, and people started having more and more future. And now life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future--you go to high school so you can go to college so you can get a good job so you can get a nice house so you can afford to send your kids to college so they can get a good job so they can get a nice house so they can afford to send their kids to college.”


“This is what you shall do; Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body.”


“If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.”


“Yes, frosting. The final defense of the dying.”


“No one knows for certain how much impact they have on the lives of other people. Oftentimes, we have no clue. Yet we push it just the same.”


“May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.”


“Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.”


“The worst part of success is trying to find someone who is happy for you.”


“Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.”


“You possess other people's...bodies."He accepted that statement with a nod."Do you want to possess my body?""I want to do a lot of things to your body, but that's not one of them.”


“Still round the corner there may wait A new road or a secret gateAnd though I oft have passed them by A day will come at last when IShall take the hidden paths that run West of the Moon, East of the Sun.”


“Once you had put the pieces back together, even though you may look intact, you were never quite the same as you'd been before the fall.”


“being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.”


“She seems so cool, so focused, so quiet, yet her eyes remain fixed upon the horizon. You think you know all there is to know about her immediately upon meeting her, but everything you think you know is wrong. Passion flows through her like a river of blood. She only looked away for a moment, and the mask slipped, and you fell. All your tomorrows start here.”


“You think my first instinct is to protect you. Because you're small, or a girl, or a Stiff. But you're wrong."He leans his face close to mine and wraps his fingers around my chin. His hand smells like metal. When was the last time he held a gun, or a knife? My skin tingles at the point of contact, like he's transmitting electricity through his skin. "My first instinct is to push you until you break, just to see how hard I have to press." he says, his fingers squeezing at the word break. My body tenses at the edge in his voice, so I am coiled as tight as a spring, and I forget to breathe.His dark eyes lifting to mine, he adds, "But I resist it." "Why..." I swallow hard. "Why is that your first instinct?""Fear doesn't shut you down; it wakes you up. I've seen it. It's fascinating." He releases me but doesn't pull away, his hand grazing my jaw, my neck. "Sometimes I just want to see it again. Want to see you awake.”


“A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.”


“If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?”


“It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.”


“I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think”


“It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.”


“People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands - literally thousands - of songs about broken hearts and rejection and pain and misery and loss.”


“Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.”


“A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.”


“There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other, and knocking out a twelve-foot mountain troll is one of them.”


“So when the moon's only partly full, you only feel a little wolfy?" "You could say that.""Well, you can go ahead and hang your head out the car window if you feel like it.""I'm a werewolf, not a golden retriever.”


“The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.”


“I knew, in the silence that followed, that anything could happen here. It might be too late: again, I might have missed my chance. But I would at least know I tried, that I took my heart and extended my hand, whatever the outcome."Okay," he said. He took a breath. "What would you do, if you could do anything?"I took a step toward him, closing the space between us. "This," I said. And then I kissed him.”


“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection”


“In a way, it's nice to know that there are Greek gods out there, because you have somebody to blame when things go wrong. For instance, when you're walking away from a bus that's just been attacked by monster hags and blown up by lightning, and it's raining on top of everything else, most people might think that's just really bad luck; when you're a half-blood, you understand that some devine force is really trying to mess up your day.”


“For whatever we lose (like a you or a me),It's always our self we find in the sea.”


“Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men.”


“The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.”


“Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.”


“One thing you can't hide - is when you're crippled inside.”


“I'm not sentimental--I'm as romantic as you are. The idea, you know,is that the sentimental person thinks things will last--the romanticperson has a desperate confidence that they won't.”


“Your beliefs become your thoughts, Your thoughts become your words, Your words become your actions, Your actions become your habits, Your habits become your values, Your values become your destiny.”


“Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.”


“There is greatness in doing something you hate for the sake of someone you love.”


“No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it.”


“We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.”


“Keep in mind that people change, but the past doesn't.”


“let me live, love, and say it well in good sentences”


“Then I realize what it is. It's him. Something about him makes me feel like I am about to fall. Or turn to liquid. Or burst into flames.”


“I suppose a fire that burns that bright is not meant to last.”


“Youth can not know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.”


“She leaned down and looked at his lifeless face and Leisel kissed her best friend, Rudy Steiner, soft and true on his lips. He tasted dusty and sweet. He tasted like regret in the shadows of trees and in the glow of the anarchist's suit collection. She kissed him long and soft, and when she pulled herself away, she touched his mouth with her fingers...She did not say goodbye. She was incapable, and after a few more minutes at his side, she was able to tear herself from the ground. It amazes me what humans can do, even when streams are flowing down their faces and they stagger on...”


“For what itâ€™s worth: itâ€™s never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be. Thereâ€™s no time limit, stop whenever you want. You can change or stay the same, there are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life youâ€™re proud of. If you find that youâ€™re not, I hope you have the courage to start all over again.”


“Silence make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying, but the never needing to say that counts.”


“Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.”


“I'm saying that I'm a moody, insecure, narrow-minded, jealous, borderline homicidal bitch, and I want you to promise me that you're okay with that, because it's who I am, and you're what I need.”


“Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.”


“You have to know what you stand for, not just what you stand against.”


“The best fantasy is written in the language of dreams. It is alive as dreams are alive, more real than real ... for a moment at least ... that long magic moment before we wake. Fantasy is silver and scarlet, indigo and azure, obsidian veined with gold and lapis lazuli. Reality is plywood and plastic, done up in mud brown and olive drab. Fantasy tastes of habaneros and honey, cinnamon and cloves, rare red meat and wines as sweet as summer. Reality is beans and tofu, and ashes at the end. Reality is the strip malls of Burbank, the smokestacks of Cleveland, a parking garage in Newark. Fantasy is the towers of Minas Tirith, the ancient stones of Gormenghast, the halls of Camelot. Fantasy flies on the wings of Icarus, reality on Southwest Airlines. Why do our dreams become so much smaller when they finally come true? We read fantasy to find the colors again, I think. To taste strong spices and hear the songs the sirens sang. There is something old and true in fantasy that speaks to something deep within us, to the child who dreamt that one day he would hunt the forests of the night, and feast beneath the hollow hills, and find a love to last forever somewhere south of Oz and north of Shangri-La. They can keep their heaven. When I die, I'd sooner go to middle Earth.”


“Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.”


“The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.”


“Your friend's poetry is terrible," he said.Clary blinked, caught momentarily off guard. "What?""I said his poetry was terrible. It sounds like he ate a dictionary and started vomiting up words at random.”


“I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?"Death thought about it.CATS, he said eventually. CATS ARE NICE.”


“Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?”


“There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.”


“But he who dares not grasp the thorn Should never crave the rose.”


“I'll just have them change the entry in the demonology textbook from 'almost extinct' to 'not extinct enough for Alec. He prefers his monsters really, really extinct.' Will that make you happy?”


“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”


“You should never be surprised when someone treats you with respect, you should expect it.”


“To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.”


“Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.”


“In a time of destruction, create something.”


“Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.”


“People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.”


“It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.”


“It's all in the view. That's what I mean about forever, too. For any one of us our forever could end in an hour, or a hundred years from now. You never know for sure, so you'd better make every second count.”


“Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.”


“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”


“Name one hero who was happy."I considered. Heracles went mad and killed his family; Theseus lost his bride and father; Jason's children and new wife were murdered by his old; Bellerophon killed the Chimera but was crippled by the fall from Pegasus' back."You can't." He was sitting up now, leaning forward."I can't.""I know. They never let you be famous AND happy." He lifted an eyebrow. "I'll tell you a secret.""Tell me." I loved it when he was like this."I'm going to be the first." He took my palm and held it to his. "Swear it.""Why me?""Because you're the reason. Swear it.""I swear it," I said, lost in the high color of his cheeks, the flame in his eyes."I swear it," he echoed.We sat like that a moment, hands touching. He grinned."I feel like I could eat the world raw.”


“In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.”


“And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.”


“That's why when major badasses greet each other in movies, they don't say anything, they just nod. The nod means, 'I' am a badass, and I recognize that you, too, are a badass,' but they don't say anything because they're Wolverine and Magneto and it would mess up their vibe to explain.”


“Tess, Tess, Tessa. Was there ever a more beautiful sound than your name? To speak it aloud makes my heart ring like a bell. Strange to imagine that, isnâ€™t it â€“ a heart ringing â€“ but when you touch me that is what it is like: as if my heart is ringing in my chest and the sound shivers down my veins and splinters my bones with joy.Why have I written these words in this book? Because of you. You taught me to love this book where I had scorned it. When I read it for the second time, with an open mind and heart, I felt the most complete despair and envy of Sydney Carton. Yes, Sydney, for even if he had no hope that the woman he loved would love him, at least he could tell her of his love. At least he could do something to prove his passion, even if that thing was to die.I would have chosen death for a chance to tell you the truth, Tessa, if I could have been assured that death would be my own. And that is why I envied Sydney, for he was free.And now at last I am free, and I can finally tell you, without fear of danger to you, all that I feel in my heart.You are not the last dream of my soul.You are the first dream, the only dream I ever was unable to stop myself from dreaming. You are the first dream of my soul, and from that dream I hope will come all other dreams, a lifetimeâ€™s worth.With hope at least,Will Herondale”


“Must you go? I was rather hoping you'd stay and be a ministering angel, but if you must go, you must.""I'll stay," Will said a bit crossly, and threw himself down in the armchair Tessa had just vacated. "I can minister angelically.""None too convincingly. And you're not as pretty to look at as Tessa is," Jem said, closing his eyes as he leaned back against the pillow."How rude. Many who have gazed upon me have compared the experience to gazing at the radiance of the sun."Jem still had his eyes closed. "If they mean it gives you a headache, they aren't wrong.”


“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”


“Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.”


“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”


“A girl should be two things: who and what she wants.”


“There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.”


“Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.”


“I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.”


“A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.”


“Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.”


“Trust is like a mirror, you can fix it if it's broken, but you can still see the crack in that mother fucker's reflection.”


“You can't stop the futureYou can't rewind the pastThe only way to learn the secret...is to press play.”


“It wouldn't be my move," Jace agreed. "First the candy and flowers, then the apology letters, then the ravenous demon hordes. In that order.”


“You can have it all. Just not all at once.”


“People have forgotten this truth," the fox said. "But you mustnâ€™t forget it. You become responsible forever for what youâ€™ve tamed. Youâ€™re responsible for your rose.”


“Beautiful face. Beautiful body. Horrible attitude. It was the holy trinity of hot boys.”


“But it is the nature of stars to cross, and never was Shakespeare more wrong than when he has Cassius note, â€˜The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars / But in ourselves.”


“When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.”


“Confidence is ignorance. If you're feeling cocky, it's because there's something you don't know.”


“I like good strong words that mean somethingâ€¦”


“A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.”


“The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.”


“Dreams do come true, if only we wish hard enough. You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.”


“Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.”


“What's the good of living if you don't try a few things?”


“When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes. Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way.”


“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”


“All alone! Whether you like it or not, alone is something you'll be quite a lot!”


“Do not fall in love with people like me. I will take you to museums, and parks, and monuments, and kiss you in every beautiful place, so that you can never go back to them without tasting me like blood in your mouth.I will destroy you in the most beautiful way possible. And when I leave you will finally understand, why storms are named after people.”


“Yes, I was infatuated with you: I am still. No one has ever heightened such a keen capacity of physical sensation in me. I cut you out because I couldn't stand being a passing fancy. Before I give my body, I must give my thoughts, my mind, my dreams. And you weren't having any of those.”


“There is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don't need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal, picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain.”


“I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says, "Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.”


“Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.”


“In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood like a hundred golden urns pouring out of the sun.”


“The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.”


“Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.”


“Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you're there. It doesn't matter what you do, he said, so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away. The difference between the man who just cuts lawns and a real gardener is in the touching, he said. The lawn-cutter might just as well not have been there at all; the gardener will be there a lifetime.”


“Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.”


“I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.”


“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.”


“I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made.”


“Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.”


“Honestly, if you were any slower, youâ€™d be going backward.”


“The saddest people I've ever met in life are the ones who don't care deeply about anything at all. Passion and satisfaction go hand in hand, and without them, any happiness is only temporary, because there's nothing to make it last.”


“Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.”


“If people refuse to look at you in a new light and they can only see you for what you were, only see you for the mistakes you've made, if they don't realize that you are not your mistakes, then they have to go.”


“Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.”


“If you want to find out what a man is to the bottom, give him power. Any man can stand adversity â€” only a great man can stand prosperity. It is the glory of Abraham Lincoln that he never abused power only on the side of mercy”


“Dreams like a podcast,Downloading truth in my ears.They tell me cool stuff.""Apollo?" I guess, because I figured nobody else could make a haiku that bad.He put his finger to his lips. "I'm incognito. Call me Fred.""A god named Fred?”


“Sonnet XVIII do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,in secret, between the shadow and the soul.I love you as the plant that never bloomsbut carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;so I love you because I know no other way than this: where I does not exist, nor you,so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep. ”


“Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning...”


“If you end up with a boring miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on television telling you how to do your shit, then you deserve it.”


“If conversation was the lyrics, laughter was the music, making time spent together a melody that could be replayed over and over without getting stale.”


“When I get lonely these days, I think: So BE lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience. But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilled yearnings.”


“Jesper knocked his head against the hull and cast his eyes heavenward. â€œFine. But if Pekka Rollins kills us all, Iâ€™m going to get Wylanâ€™s ghost to teach my ghost how to play the flute just so that I can annoy the hell out of your ghost.â€�Brekkerâ€™s lips quirked. â€œIâ€™ll just hire Matthiasâ€™ ghost to kick your ghostâ€™s ass.â€�â€œMy ghost wonâ€™t associate with your ghost,â€� Matthias said primly, and then wondered if the sea air was rotting his brain.”


“Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.”


“Are you implying that shreds of my reputation remain intact?" Will demanded with mock horror. "Clearly I have been doing something wrong. Or not something wrong, as the case may be." He banged on the side of the carriage. "Thomas! We must away at once to the nearest brothel. I seek scandal and low companionship.”


“Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college.”


“No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.”


“Only the dead have seen the end of war.”


“A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.”


“If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days.”


“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.”


“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.”


“I fell in love with him. But I don't just stay with him by default as if there's no one else available to me. I stay with him because I choose to, every day that I wake up, every day that we fight or lie to each other or disappoint each other. I choose him over and over again, and he chooses me.”


“God can't give us peace and happiness apart from Himself because there is no such thing.”


“Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.”


“Go on with what your heart tells you, or you will lose all.”


“If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.”


“Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.”


“If there's a single lesson that life teaches us, it's that wishing doesn't make it so.”


“Donâ€™t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When youâ€™re good, bad things can still happen. And if youâ€™re bad, you can still be lucky.”


“If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.”


“I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.”


“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”


“Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.”


“Open your heart. Someone will come. Someone will come for you. But first you must open your heart.”


“Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met.”


“Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian.”


“From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere!”


“The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.”


“Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means...”


“She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn't boring.”


“Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”


“Did you ever think that in a past life Alec was an old woman with ninety cats who was always yelling at the neighborhood kids to get off her lawn? Because I do,”


“It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.”


“Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die.”


“Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.”


“I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam.”


“Families are messy. Immortal families are eternally messy. Sometimes the best we can do is to remind each other that we're related for better or for worse...and try to keep the maiming and killing to a minimum.”


“Because you can't argue with all the fools in the world. It's easier to let them have their way, then trick them when they're not paying attention.”


“Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta. She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms she was always Lolita. Did she have a precursor? She did, indeed she did. In point of fact, there might have been no Lolita at all had I not loved, one summer, an initial girl-child. In a princedom by the sea. Oh when? About as many years before Lolita was born as my age was that summer. You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style. Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, exhibit number one is what the seraphs, the misinformed, simple, noble-winged seraphs, envied. Look at this tangle of thorns.”


“Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world.”


“Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.”


“Don't compromise yourself - you're all you have.”


“I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year.”


“DON'T THINK OF IT AS DYING, said Death. JUST THINK OF IT AS LEAVING EARLY TO AVOID THE RUSH.”


“silence is the language of god, all else is poor translation.”


“If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.”


“I drink to make other people more interesting.”


“Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing.”


“There is only one sin. and that is theft... when you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth.”


“It was a mistake," you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.”


“I thought I'd lie on the floor and writhe in pain for a while," he grunted, "It relaxes me.""It does? Oh - you're being sarcastic. That's a good sign probably.”


“Ah, my daughter,Êº he said. ÊºEighteen, and already youÊ¹ve been accused of murder, aided felons, and acquired a death count higher than most guardians will ever see.Êº He paused. ÊºI couldnÊ¹t be prouder.”


“What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do.”


“One of the advantages of being disorganized is that one is always having surprising discoveries.”


“A house without books is like a room without windows.”


“Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all Iâ€™ve taken for granted.”


“The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you.”


“We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.”


“Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.”


“Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are god. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are gods.”


“It's the questions we can't answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think. If you give a man an answer, all he gains is a little fact. But give him a question and he'll look for his own answers.”


“Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door. ”


“Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.”


“It's not gray," Clary felt compelled to point out. "It's green.""If there was such a thing as terminal literalism, you'd have died in childhood," said Jace.”


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“Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before! What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. What if Christmas...perhaps...means a little bit more!”


“It is a curious thing, Harry, but perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it. Those who, like you, have leadership thrust upon them, and take up the mantle because they must, and find to their own surprise that they wear it well.”


“I don't want tea," said Clary, with muffled force. "I want to find my mother. And then I want to find out who took her in the first place, and I want to kill them.""Unfortunately," said Hodge, "we're all out of bitter revenge at the moment, so it's either tea or nothing.”


“Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.”


“When did we see each other face-to-face? Not until you saw into my cracks and I saw into yours. Before that, we were just looking at ideas of each other, like looking at your window shade but never seeing inside. But once the vessel cracks, the light can get in. The light can get out.”


“A word after a word after a word is power.”


“You're just worried they'll hire a male instructor and he'll be hotter than you." Jace's eyebrows went up. "Hotter than me?" "It could happen," Clary said, "You know, theoretically.""Theoretically the planet could suddenly crack in half, leaving me on one side and you on the other, forever and tragically parted, but I'm not worried about that either. Some things," Jace said, with his customary crooked smile, "are just too unlikely to dwell upon.”


“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”


“Try a little harder to be a little better.”


“Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness.”


“You could have fooled me. Everytime I called you, Luke said you were sick. I figured you were avoiding me. Again.""I wasn't. I did want to talk to you. I've been thinking about you all the time.""I've been thinking about you, too.""I really was sick. I swear. I almost died back there on the ship, you know.""I know. Everytime you almost die, I almost die myself.”


“Let me give you a piece of advice. The handsome young fellow who's trying to rescue you from a hideous fate is never wrong. Not even if he says the sky is purple and made of hedgehogs.”


“There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you.”


“Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.”


“There is only one page left to write on. I will fill it with words of only one syllable. I love. I have loved. I will love.”


“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”


“She had always wanted words, she loved them; grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape.”


“Even strength must bow to wisdom sometimes.”


“Time doesnâ€™t heal emotional pain, you need to learn how to let go.”


“I'm on Aslan's side even if there isn't any Aslan to lead it. I'm going to live as like a Narnian as I can even if there isn't any Narnia.”


“If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut”


“The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.”


“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”


“Whenever you read a cancer booklet or website or whatever, they always list depression among the side effects of cancer. But, in fact, depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying.”


“Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know.”


“You'd think people had better things to gossip about," said Ginny as she sat on the common room floor, leaning against Harryâ€™s legs and reading the Daily Prophet. "Three Dementor attacks in a week, and all Romilda Vane does is ask me if itâ€™s true youâ€™ve got a Hippogriff tattooed across your chest."Ron and Hermione both roared with laughter. Harry ignored them.What did you tell her?"I told her it's a Hungarian Horntail," said Ginny, turning a page of the newspaper idly. "Much more macho."Thanks," said Harry, grinning. "And what did you tell her Ronâ€™s got?"A Pygmy Puff, but I didnâ€™t say where.”


“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”


“I wrote the story myself. It's about a girl who lost her reputation and never missed it.”


“Love can change a person the way a parent can change a baby- awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess.”


“A childhood without books â€“ that would be no childhood. That would be like being shut out from the enchanted place where you can go and find the rarest kind of joy.”


“If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.”


“You are not your job, you're not how much money you have in the bank. You are not the car you drive. You're not the contents of your wallet. You are not your fucking khakis. You are all singing, all dancing crap of the world.”


“You're an idiot.""I've never claimed to be otherwise.”


“When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.”


“The important thing to you is not how many years in your life, but how much life in your years!”


“This is the way the world endsNot with a bang but a whimper.”


“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the book we're reading doesn't wake us up with a blow to the head, what are we reading for? So that it will make us happy, as you write? Good Lord, we would be happy precisely if we had no books, and the kind of books that make us happy are the kind we could write ourselves if we had to. But we need books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. That is my belief.”


“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.”


“All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair.”


“Did you know that 'I told you so' has a brother,Jacob?" she asked cutting me off. "His name is 'Shut the hell up'.”


“When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not yet ready. The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back. A week is more than enough time for us to decide whether or not to accept our destiny.”


“How nice -- to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.”


“I always channel my emotions into my work. That way, I don't hurt anyone but myself.”


“In time, the hurt began to fade and it was easier to just let it go. At least I thought it was. But in every boy I met in the next few years, I found myself looking for you, and when the feelings got too strong, I'd write you another letter. But I never sent them for fear of what I might find. By then, you'd gone on with your life and I didn't want to think about you loving someone else. I wanted to remember us like we were that summer. I didn't ever want to lose that.”


“Really, the combination of the scabs and the ointment looks hideous. I can't help enjoying his distress."Poor Finnick. Is this the first time in your life you haven't looked pretty?" I say."It must be. The sensation's completely new. How have you managed it all these years?" he asks."Just avoid mirrors. You'll forget about it," I say."Not if I keep looking at you," he says.”


“I fell in love with you, smartass, because you were one of usâ€”because you werenâ€™t afraid of me, and you decided to end your spectacular victory by throwing that piece of bone at Amarantha like a javelin. I felt Cassianâ€™s spirit beside me in that moment, and could have sworn I heard him say, â€˜If you donâ€™t marry her, you stupid prick, I will.”


“As it has been said:Love and a coughcannot be concealed.Even a small cough.Even a small love.”


“By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes.”


“Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask whatâ€™s for lunch.”


“The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, because there was no longer anyone to remember with. It felt like losing your co-rememberer meant losing the memory itself, as if the things we'd done were less real and important than they had been hours before.”


“No one has ever become poor by giving.”


“Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, "It might have been.”


“Time is the longest distance between two places.”


“Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back. That's part of what it means to be alive. But inside our heads - at least that's where I imagine it - there's a little room where we store those memories. A room like the stacks in this library. And to understand the workings of our own heart we have to keep on making new reference cards. We have to dust things off every once in awhile, let in fresh air, change the water in the flower vases. In other words, you'll live forever in your own private library.”


“Hope can be a powerful force. Maybe there's no actual magic in it, but when you know what you hope for most and hold it like a light within you, you can make things happen, almost like magic.”


“Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.”


“Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on TheeAnd I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.”


“My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.”


“I love books, by the way, way more than movies. Movies tell you what to think. A good book lets you choose a few thoughts for yourself. Movies show you the pink house. A good book tells you there's a pink house and lets you paint some of the finishing touches, maybe choose the roof style,park your own car out front. My imagination has always topped anything a movie could come up with. Case in point, those darned Harry Potter movies. That was so not what that part-Veela-chick, Fleur Delacour, looked like.”


“Sometimes beautiful things come into our lives out of nowhere. We can't always understand them, but we have to trust in them. I know you want to question everything, but sometimes it pays to just have a little faith.”


“Remember, darkness does not always equate to evil, just as light does not always bring good.”


“A diary with no drawings of me in it? Where are the torrid fantasies? The romance covers?”


“Do not be afraid; our fateCannot be taken from us; it is a gift.”


“He accused me of being Dumbledore's man through and through.""How very rude of him.""I told him I was."Dumbledore opened his mouth to speak and then closed it again. Fawkes the phoenix let out a low, soft, musical cry. To Harry's intense embarrassment, he suddenly realized that Dumbledore's bright blue eyes looked rather watery, and stared hastily at his own knee. When Dumbledore spoke, however, his voice was quite steady. "I am very touched, Harry.”


“I meant what I said and I said what I meant. An elephant's faithful one-hundred percent!”


“Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want. It is the belief that God will do what is right.”


“To shine your brightest light is to be who you truly are.”


“Sometimes you read a book so special that you want to carry it around with you for months after you've finished just to stay near it.”


“That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.”


“Animals are my friends...and I don't eat my friends.”


“In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.”


“What day is it?â€� asked Pooh. â€œItâ€™s today,â€� squeaked Piglet.â€œMy favorite day,â€� said Pooh.”


“Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.”


“What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?”


“I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and experience.”


“Ah, music," he said, wiping his eyes. "A magic beyond all we do here!”


“Sometimes, when I have to do something I don't want to do, I pretend I'm a character from a book. It's easier to know what they would do.”


“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”


“When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book.”


“Knowing too much of your future is never a good thing.”


“You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.”


“There are so many ways to be brave in this world. Sometimes bravery involves laying down your life for something bigger than yourself, or for someone else. Sometimes it involves giving up everything you have ever known, or everyone you have ever loved, for the sake of something greater.But sometimes it doesn't.Sometimes it is nothing more than gritting your teeth through pain, and the work of every day, the slow walk toward a better life. That is the sort of bravery I must have now.”


“Be thankful for everything that happens in your life; itâ€™s all an experience.”


“The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected. Maybe they always have been and will be. Maybe we've lived a thousand lives before this one and in each of them we've found each other. And maybe each time, we've been forced apart for the same reasons. That means that this goodbye is both a goodbye for the past ten thousand years and a prelude to what will come.”


“I'm going to wake Peeta," I say."No, wait," says Finnick. "Let's do it together. Put our faces right in front of his."Well, there's so little opportunity for fun left in my life, I agree. We position ourselves on either side of Peeta, lean over until our faces are inches frim his nose, and give him a shake. "Peeta. Peeta, wake up," I say in a soft, singsong voice.His eyelids flutter open and then he jumps like we've stabbed him. "Aa!"Finnick and I fall back in the sand, laughing our heads off. Every time we try to stop, we look at Peeta's attempt to maintain a disdainful expression and it sets us off again.”


“The moon is a loyal companion.It never leaves. Itâ€™s always there, watching, steadfast, knowing us in our light and dark moments, changing forever just as we do. Every day itâ€™s a different version of itself. Sometimes weak and wan, sometimes strong and full of light. The moon understands what it means to be human.Uncertain. Alone. Cratered by imperfections.”


“They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite”


“I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.”


“If you know someone whoâ€™s depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isnâ€™t a straightforward response to a bad situation; depression just is, like the weather.Try to understand the blackness, lethargy, hopelessness, and loneliness theyâ€™re going through. Be there for them when they come through the other side. Itâ€™s hard to be a friend to someone whoâ€™s depressed, but it is one of the kindest, noblest, and best things you will ever do.”


“Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.”


“Peeta, how come I never know when you're having a nightmare?â€� I say.â€œI don't know. I don't think I cry out or thrash around or anything. I just come to, paralyzed with terror,â€� he says.â€œYou should wake me,â€� I say, thinking about how I can interrupt his sleep two or three times on a bad night. About how long it can take to calm me down.â€œIt's not necessary. My nightmares are usually about losing you,â€� he says. â€œI'm okay once I realize you're here.”


“I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down.”


“You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.”


“Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.”


“The scar had not pained Harry for nineteen years. All was well.”


“Have you really read all those books in your room?â€�Alaska laughing- â€œOh God no. Iâ€™ve maybe read a third of â€˜em. But Iâ€™m going to read them all. I call it my Lifeâ€™s Library. Every summer since I was little, Iâ€™ve gone to garage sales and bought all the books that looked interesting. So I always have something to read.”


“Strange as it may seem, I still hope for the best, even though the best, like an interesting piece of mail, so rarely arrives, and even when it does it can be lost so easily.”


“Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”


“He was gone, and I did not have time to tell him what I had just now realized: that I forgave him, and that she forgave us, and that we had to forgive to survive in the labyrinth. There were so many of us who would have to live with things done and things left undone that day. Things that did not go right, things that seemed okay at the time because we could not see the future. If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions. But we canâ€™t know better until knowing better is useless. And as I walked back to give Takumiâ€™s note to the Colonel, I saw that I would never know. I would never know her well enough to know her thoughts in those last minutes, would never know if she left us on purpose. But the not-knowing would not keep me from caring, and I would always love Alaska Young, my crooked neighbor, with all my crooked heart.”


“Come sleep with me: We won't make Love, Love will make us.”


“The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.”