“The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.”


“If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.”


“Tears are words that need to be written.”


“Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light; I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”


“Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.”


“I bet you could sometimes find all the mysteries of the universe in someone's hand.”


“Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.”


“It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.”


“I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.”


“Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected.”


“The spell. Victor said you had to want me... to care about me... for it to work." When he didn't say anything, I tried to grip his shirt, but my fingers were too weak. "Did you? Did you want me?"His words came out thickly. "Yes, Roza. I did want you. I still do. I wish... we could be together.""Then why did you lie to me?"We reached the clinic, and he managed to open the door while still holding me. As soon as he stepped inside, he began yelling for help. "Why did you lie?" I murmured again.Still holding me in his arms, he looked down at me. I could hear voices and footsteps getting closer."Because we can't be together.""Because of the age thing, right?" I asked. "Because you're my mentor?"His fingertip gently wiped away a tear that had escaped down my cheek. "That's part of it," he said. "But also... well, you and I will both be Lissa's gaurdians someday. I need to protect her at all cost. If a pack of Strogoi come, I need to throw my body between them and her."I know that. Of course that's what you have to do." The black sparkles were dancing in front of my eyes again. I was fading out."No. If I let myself love you, I won't throw myself in front of her. I'll throw myself in front of you.”


“People come, people go â€“ theyâ€™ll drift in and out of your life, almost like characters in a favorite book. When you finally close the cover, the characters have told their story and you start up again with another book, complete with new characters and adventures. Then you find yourself focusing on the new ones, not the ones from the past.”


“The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.”


“I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.”


“Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.”


“It's no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently or if your favorite films wouldn't even speak to each other if they met at a party.”


“We are addicted to our thoughts. We cannot change anything if we cannot change our thinking.”


“Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.”


“I read once that the ancient Egyptians had fifty words for sand & the Eskimos had a hundred words for snow. I wish I had a thousand words for love, but all that comes to mind is the way you move against me while you sleep & there are no words for that.”


“Pretty women wonder where my secret lies.I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's sizeBut when I start to tell them,They think I'm telling lies.I say,It's in the reach of my armsThe span of my hips,The stride of my step,The curl of my lips.I'm a womanPhenomenally.Phenomenal woman,That's me.”


“You know how they say you only hurt the ones you love? Well, it works both ways.”


“Even in half demon hunter clothes, Clary thought, he looked like the kind of boy who'd come over your house to pick you up for a date and be polite to your parents and nice to your pets.Jace on the other hand, looked like the kind of boy who'd come over your house and burn it down just for kicks.”


“It's not always necessary to be strong, but to feel strong.”


“What do you want?""Just coffee. Black - like my soul.”


“If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.”


“Sometimes you have to lose all you have to find out who you truly are.”


“I cannot go to school today"Said little Peggy Ann McKay."I have the measles and the mumps,A gash, a rash and purple bumps.My mouth is wet, my throat is dry.I'm going blind in my right eye.My tonsils are as big as rocks,I've counted sixteen chicken pox.And there's one more - that's seventeen,And don't you think my face looks green?My leg is cut, my eyes are blue,It might be the instamatic flu.I cough and sneeze and gasp and choke,I'm sure that my left leg is broke.My hip hurts when I move my chin,My belly button's caving in.My back is wrenched, my ankle's sprained,My 'pendix pains each time it rains.My toes are cold, my toes are numb,I have a sliver in my thumb.My neck is stiff, my voice is weak,I hardly whisper when I speak.My tongue is filling up my mouth,I think my hair is falling out.My elbow's bent, my spine ain't straight,My temperature is one-o-eight.My brain is shrunk, I cannot hear,There's a hole inside my ear.I have a hangnail, and my heart is ...What? What's that? What's that you say?You say today is .............. Saturday?G'bye, I'm going out to play!”


“The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.”


“We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.”


“I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till i drop. This is the night, what it does to you. I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.”


“Is it possible for home to be a person and not a place?”


“Don't let the bastards grind you down.”


“Lost love is still love. It takes a different form, that's all. You can't see their smile or bring them food or tousle their hair or move them around a dance floor. But when those senses weaken another heightens. Memory. Memory becomes your partner. You nurture it. You hold it. You dance with it.”


“A word to the wise ain't necessary, it's the stupid ones who need advice.”


“The trouble is if you donâ€™t spend your life yourself, other people spend it for you.”


“Time was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on. I hope you never have to think about anything as much as I think about you.”


“I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.”


“I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.”


“I like flaws. I think they make things interesting.”


“Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.”


“If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree. ”


“There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.”


“A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.”


“It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.”


“Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door â€” Only this, and nothing more."Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December,And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.Eagerly I wished the morrow; â€” vainly I had sought to borrowFrom my books surcease of sorrow â€” sorrow for the lost Lenore â€”For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore â€” Nameless here for evermore.And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtainThrilled me â€” filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before;So that now, to still the beating of my heart, I stood repeating,Tis some visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door â€”Some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door; â€” This it is, and nothing more."Presently my soul grew stronger; hesitating then no longer,Sir," said I, "or Madam, truly your forgiveness I implore;But the fact is I was napping, and so gently you came rapping,And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door,That I scarce was sure I heard you"â€” here I opened wide the door; â€” Darkness there, and nothing more.Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing,Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortals ever dared to dream before;But the silence was unbroken, and the stillness gave no token,And the only word there spoken was the whispered word, "Lenore?"This I whispered, and an echo murmured back the word, "Lenore!" â€” Merely this, and nothing more.Back into the chamber turning, all my soul within me burning,Soon again I heard a tapping somewhat louder than before.Surely," said I, "surely that is something at my window lattice:Let me see, then, what thereat is, and this mystery explore â€”Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore; â€” 'Tis the wind and nothing more."Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flirt and flutter,In there stepped a stately raven of the saintly days of yore;Not the least obeisance made he; not a minute stopped or stayed he;But, with mien of lord or lady, perched above my chamber door â€”Perched upon a bust of Pallas just above my chamber door â€” Perched, and sat, and nothing more.Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling,By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore.Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou," I said, "art sure no craven,Ghastly grim and ancient raven wandering from the Nightly shore â€”Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore!" Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore."Much I marveled this ungainly fowl to hear discourse so plainly,Though its answer little meaningâ€” little relevancy bore;For we cannot help agreeing that no living human beingEver yet was blest with seeing bird above his chamber door â€”Bird or beast upon the sculptured bust above his chamber door, With such name as "Nevermore.”


“You must write every single day of your life... You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads... may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.”


“It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.”


“When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everyone will respect you.”


“One wordFrees us of all the weight and pain of life:That word is love.”


“Thinking something does not make it true. Wanting something does not make it real.”


“You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don't help.”


“We're staying together," he promised. "You're not getting away from me. Never again.”


“True love is usually the most inconvenient kind.”


“When I was your age, television was called books.”


“The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.”


“From childhood's hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. As others saw, I could not awaken. My heart to joy at the same tone. And all I loved, I loved alone.”


“There are two means of refuge from the misery of life â€” music and cats.”


“It gives me strength to have somebody to fight for; I can never fight for myself, but, for others, I can kill.”


“When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.”


“Ginny!" said Mr. Weasley, flabbergasted. "Haven't I taught you anything? What have I always told you? Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain?”


“The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,And all the sweet serenity of books”


“I am always saying "Glad to've met you" to somebody I'm not at all glad I met. If you want to stay alive, you have to say that stuff, though.”


“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.”


“[D]on't ever apologise to an author for buying something in paperback, or taking it out from a library (that's what they're there for. Use your library). Don't apologise to this author for buying books second hand, or getting them from bookcrossing or borrowing a friend's copy. What's important to me is that people read the books and enjoy them, and that, at some point in there, the book was bought by someone. And that people who like things, tell other people. The most important thing is that people read...”


“The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who donâ€™t want it badly enough. Theyâ€™re there to stop the other people.”


“There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.”


“You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.”


“And all the books you've read have been read by other people. And all the songs you've loved have been heard by other people. And that girl that's pretty to you is pretty to other people. and that if you looked at these facts when you were happy, you would feel great because you are describing 'unity.”


“Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.”


“Friendship- my definition- is built on two things. Respect and trust. Both elements have to be there. And it has to be mutual. You can have respect for someone, but if you don't have trust, the friendship will crumble.”


“When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching -- they are your family. ”


“Black holes are where God divided by zero.”


“Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.”


“Jace shook his blond head in exasperation. "You had to make a crazy jail friend, didn't you? You couldn't just count ceiling tiles or tame a pet mouse like normal prisoners do?”


“If Iâ€™m honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.”


“If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone?”


“Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.”


“Therefore, dear Sir, love your solitude and try to sing out with the pain it causes you. For those who are near you are far away... and this shows that the space around you is beginning to grow vast.... be happy about your growth, in which of course you can't take anyone with you, and be gentle with those who stay behind; be confident and calm in front of them and don't torment them with your doubts and don't frighten them with your faith or joy, which they wouldn't be able to comprehend. Seek out some simple and true feeling of what you have in common with them, which doesn't necessarily have to alter when you yourself change again and again; when you see them, love life in a form that is not your own and be indulgent toward those who are growing old, who are afraid of the aloneness that you trust.... and don't expect any understanding; but believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it.”


“Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it's always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and quite often the blank piece of paper wins.”


“No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn't experience it all. There's that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should've been paying attention.Well, get used to that feeling. That's how your whole life will feel some day.This is all practice.”


“Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.”


“What happened down in the dungeons between you and Professor Quirrell is a complete secret, so, naturally the whole school knows.”


“Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.”


“My name is Celaena Sardothien. But it makes no difference if my name's Celaena or Lillian or Bitch, because I'd still beat you, no matter what you call me.”


“When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew.”


“Books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them.”


“please believe that things are good with me, and even when they're not, they will be soon enough. And i will always believe the same about you.”


“A woman's heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her.”


“Some people have a way with words, and other people...oh, uh, not have way.”


“It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.”


“It's hard to enjoy practical jokes when your whole life feels like one.”


“I've lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.”


“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”


“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”


“Stop comparing yourself to other people, just choose to be happy and live your own life.”


“I fell in love with her when we were together, then fell deeper in love with her in the years we were apart.”


“The only thing better than imagining Dimitri carrying me in his arms was imagining him shirtless while carrying me in his arms.”


“You're a painter. You're a baker. You like to sleep with the windows open. You never take sugar in your tea. And you always double-knot your shoelaces.”


“There is a crack in everything.That's how the light gets in.”


“Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.”


“Forbidden to remember, terrified to forget; it was a hard line to walk.”


“I will love you always. When this red hair is white, I will still love you. When the smooth softness of youth is replaced by the delicate softness of age, I will still want to touch your skin. When your face is full of the lines of every smile you have ever smiled, of every surprise I have seen flash through your eyes, when every tear you have ever cried has left its mark upon your face,I will treasure you all the more, because I was there to see it all. I will share your life with you, Meredith, and I will love you until the last breath leaves your body or mine.”


“As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world.”


“The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it...”


“Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that's what makes you strong.”


“Don't give in to your fears. If you do, you won't be able to talk to your heart.”


“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life, but define yourself.”


“You are not rich until you have a rich heart.”


“I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them. ”


“You never change your life until you step out of your comfort zone; change begins at the end of your comfort zone.”


“Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly. But I donâ€™t go along with that. The memories I value most, I donâ€™t ever see them fading.”


“1. Be Impeccable With Your WordSpeak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love. 2. Don't Take Anything PersonallyNothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won't be the victim of needless suffering. 3. Don't Make AssumptionsFind the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life. 4. Always Do Your BestYour best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.”


“When we don't know who to hate, we hate ourselves.”


“When the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.”


“The more one judges, the less one loves.”


“Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.”


“I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.”


“Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.”


“Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)... There are just some kind of men who - who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.”


“Do not let the memories of your past limit the potential of your future. There are no limits to what you can achieve on your journey through life, except in your mind.”


“A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.”


“Remember me and smile, for it's better to forget than to remember me and cry.”


“Let the first act of every morning be to make the following resolve for the day:- I shall not fear anyone on Earth. - I shall fear only God. - I shall not bear ill will toward anyone. - I shall not submit to injustice from anyone. - I shall conquer untruth by truth. And in resisting untruth, I shall put up with all suffering.”


“Did you see that dress?â€� "I saw the dress.â€� "Did you like it?â€� He didn't answer. I took that as a yes. "Am I going to endanger my reputation if I wear it to the dance?â€� When he spoke, I could barely hear him. "You'll endanger the school.â€� I smiled and fell asleep.”


“One person's craziness is another person's reality.”


“You are not special. You're not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else. We're all part of the same compost heap. We're all singing, all dancing crap of the world.”


“I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.”


“That's the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. But depression is so insidious, and it compounds daily, that it's impossible to ever see the end.”


“If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.”


“May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out.”


“They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.”


“I know we're fucked up, alright? I'm impulsive, and hot tempered, and you get under my skin like no one else. You act like you hate me one minute, and then need me the next. I never get anything right, and I don't deserve you...but I fucking love you, Abby. I love you more than I loved anyone or anything ever. When you're around, I don't need booze, or money, or the fighting, or the one-night stands...”


“What she had realized was that love was that moment when your heart was about to burst.”


“Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot.”


“To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.”


“If you have good friends, no matter how much life is sucking , they can make you laugh.”


“In the endthese things matter most:How well did you love?How fully did you live?How deeply did you let go?”


“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”


“Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.”


“I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.”


“It doesn't matter. I have books, new books, and I can bear anything as long as there are books.”


“If you're too open-minded; your brains will fall out.”


“Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.”


“Why do people say "grow some balls"? Balls are weak and sensitive. If you wanna be tough, grow a vagina. Those things can take a pounding.”


“I hope you're pleased with yourselves. We could all have been killed - or worse, expelled. Now if you don't mind, I'm going to bed.”


“Whatever you are physically...male or female, strong or weak, ill or healthy--all those things matter less than what your heart contains. If you have the soul of a warrior, you are a warrior. All those other things, they are the glass that contains the lamp, but you are the light inside.”


“I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.”


“Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life.”


“No sight so sad as that of a naughty child," he began, "especially a naughty little girl. Do you know where the wicked go after death?""They go to hell," was my ready and orthodox answer."And what is hell? Can you tell me that?""A pit full of fire.""And should you like to fall into that pit, and to be burning there for ever?""No, sir.""What must you do to avoid it?"I deliberated a moment: my answer, when it did come was objectionable: "I must keep in good health and not die.”


“I'd rather die my way than live yours.”


“Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.”


“Morning is wonderful. Its only drawback is that it comes at such an inconvenient time of day.”


“Life is too short to waste any amount of time on wondering what other people think about you. In the first place, if they had better things going on in their lives, they wouldn't have the time to sit around and talk about you. What's important to me is not others' opinions of me, but what's important to me is my opinion of myself.”


“I could die for you. But I couldn't, and wouldn't, live for you.”


“I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don't know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness. In reality those who satisfy me are those who simply allow me to live with my ''idea of them.”


“Headline?" he asked."'Swing Set Needs Home,'" I said."'Desperately Lonely Swing Set Needs Loving Home,'" he said."'Lonely, Vaguely Pedophilic Swing Set Seeks the Butts of Children,'" I said.”


“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”


“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes.Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're Doing Something.So that's my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself. Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody's ever made before. Don't freeze, don't stop, don't worry that it isn't good enough, or it isn't perfect, whatever it is: art, or love, or work or family or life.Whatever it is you're scared of doing, Do it.Make your mistakes, next year and forever.”


“If you have enough book space, I don't want to talk to you.”


“Holding Eleanor's hand was like holding a butterfly. Or a heartbeat. Like holding something complete, and completely alive.”


“Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.”


“The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.”


“The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear”


“I hope you will have a wonderful year, that you'll dream dangerously and outrageously, that you'll make something that didn't exist before you made it, that you will be loved and that you will be liked, and that you will have people to love and to like in return. And, most importantly (because I think there should be more kindness and more wisdom in the world right now), that you will, when you need to be, be wise, and that you will always be kind.”


“It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.”


“I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.”


“I donâ€™t trust anybody. Not anybody. And the more that I care about someone, the more sure I am theyâ€™re going to get tired of me and take off.”


“I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.”


“It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.”


“Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself.”


“Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. It is all part of the fairy tale.”


“I have faith that God will show you the answer. But you have to understand that sometimes it takes a while to be able to recognize what God wants you to do. That's how it often is. God's voice is usually nothing more than a whisper, and you have to listen very carefully to hear it. But other times, in those rarest of moments, the answer is obvious and rings as loud as a church bell.”


“There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be...”


“Everything must be made as simple as possible. But not simpler.”


“I guess thatâ€™s just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up.”


“They say I'm old-fashioned, and live in the past, but sometimes I think progress progresses too fast!”


“Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.”


“When God Created Mothers" When the Good Lord was creating mothers, He was into His sixth day of "overtime" when the angel appeared and said. "You're doing a lot of fiddling around on this one." And God said, "Have you read the specs on this order?" She has to be completely washable, but not plastic. Have 180 moveable parts...all replaceable. Run on black coffee and leftovers. Have a lap that disappears when she stands up. A kiss that can cure anything from a broken leg to a disappointed love affair. And six pairs of hands." The angel shook her head slowly and said. "Six pairs of hands.... no way." It's not the hands that are causing me problems," God remarked, "it's the three pairs of eyes that mothers have to have." That's on the standard model?" asked the angel. God nodded. One pair that sees through closed doors when she asks, 'What are you kids doing in there?' when she already knows. Another here in the back of her head that sees what she shouldn't but what she has to know, and of course the ones here in front that can look at a child when he goofs up and say. 'I understand and I love you' without so much as uttering a word." God," said the angel touching his sleeve gently, "Get some rest tomorrow...." I can't," said God, "I'm so close to creating something so close to myself. Already I have one who heals herself when she is sick...can feed a family of six on one pound of hamburger...and can get a nine year old to stand under a shower." The angel circled the model of a mother very slowly. "It's too soft," she sighed. But tough!" said God excitedly. "You can imagine what this mother can do or endure." Can it think?" Not only can it think, but it can reason and compromise," said the Creator. Finally, the angel bent over and ran her finger across the cheek. There's a leak," she pronounced. "I told You that You were trying to put too much into this model." It's not a leak," said the Lord, "It's a tear." What's it for?" It's for joy, sadness, disappointment, pain, loneliness, and pride." You are a genius, " said the angel. Somberly, God said, "I didn't put it there.”


“Sorrow is how we learn to love. Your heart isn't breaking. It hurts because it's getting larger. The larger it gets, the more love it holds.”


“â€¨Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you allows your soul room to grow. Never expect to outgrow loneliness. Never hope to find people who will understand you, someone to fill that space. An intelligent, sensitive person is the exception, the very great exception. If you expect to find people who will understand you, you will grow murderous with disappointment. The best you'll ever do is to understand yourself, know what it is that you want, and not let the cattle stand in your way.”


“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”


“You do have a story inside you; it lies articulate and waiting to be written â€” behind your silence and your suffering.”


“We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has taken a lifetime to learn. It seems only the old are able to sit next to one another and not say anything and still feel content. The young, brash and impatient, must always break the silence. It is a waste, for silence is pure. Silence is holy. It draws people together because only those who are comfortable with each other can sit without speaking. This is the great paradox.”


“Trains are great dirty smoky things," said Will. "You won't like it." Tessa was unmoved. "I won't know if I like it until I try it, will I?" "I've never swum naked in the Thames before, but I know I wouldn't like it." "But think how entertaining for sightseers," said Tessa, and she saw Jem duck his head to hide the quick flash of his grin.”


“When we're incomplete, we're always searching for somebody to complete us. When, after a few years or a few months of a relationship, we find that we're still unfulfilled, we blame our partners and take up with somebody more promising. This can go on and on--series polygamy--until we admit that while a partner can add sweet dimensions to our lives, we, each of us, are responsible for our own fulfillment. Nobody else can provide it for us, and to believe otherwise is to delude ourselves dangerously and to program for eventual failure every relationship we enter.”


“Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.”


“Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.”


“When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives.”


“An Unbreakable Vow?" said Ron, looking stunned. "Nah, he canâ€™t have.... Are you sure?""Yes Iâ€™m sure," said Harry. "Why, what does it mean?""Well, you canâ€™t break an Unbreakable Vow...""Iâ€™d worked that much out for myself, funnily enough.”


“The past is always tense, the future perfect.”


“It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.”


“Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before--more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle.”


“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”


“Atticus, he was real nice.""Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them.”


“He awoke each morning with the desire to do right, to be a good and meaningful person, to be, as simple as it sounded and as impossible as it actually was, happy. And during the course of each day his heart would descend from his chest into his stomach. By early afternoon he was overcome by the feeling that nothing was right, or nothing was right for him, and by the desire to be alone. By evening he was fulfilled: alone in the magnitude of his grief, alone in his aimless guilt, alone even in his loneliness. I am not sad, he would repeat to himself over and over, I am not sad. As if he might one day convince himself. Or fool himself. Or convince others--the only thing worse than being sad is for others to know that you are sad. I am not sad. I am not sad. Because his life had unlimited potential for happiness, insofar as it was an empty white room. He would fall asleep with his heart at the foot of his bed, like some domesticated animal that was no part of him at all. And each morning he would wake with it again in the cupboard of his rib cage, having become a little heavier, a little weaker, but still pumping. And by the midafternoon he was again overcome with the desire to be somewhere else, someone else, someone else somewhere else. I am not sad.”


“Patience, grasshopper," said Maia. "Good things come to those who wait.""I always thought that was 'Good things come to those who do the wave,'" said Simon. "No wonder I've been so confused all my life.”


“The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.”


“The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.”


“I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.”


“I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself”


“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.”


“Whenever you feel like criticizing any one...just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.”


“So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're busy doing things they think are important. This is because they're chasing the wrong things. The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.”


“All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.”


“To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.”


“In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.”


“The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. If you would take a man's life, you owe it to him to look into his eyes and hear his final words. And if you cannot bear to do that, then perhaps the man does not deserve to die.”


“I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot!”


“The major problemâ€”one of the major problems, for there are severalâ€”one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them. To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.”


“Let the improvement of yourself keep you so busy that you have no time to criticize others.”


“What is family? They were the people who claimed you. In good, in bad, in parts or in whole, they were the ones who showed up, who stayed in there, regardless. It wasn't just about blood relations or shared chromosomes, but something wider, bigger. We had many families over time. Our family of origin, the family we created, and the groups you moved through while all of this was happening: friends, lovers, sometimes even strangers. None of them perfect, and we couldn't expect them to be. You can't make any one person your world. The trick was to take what each could give you and build your world from it.”


“Sometimes I wonder if there's something wrong with me. Perhaps I've spent too long in the company of my literary romantic heroes, and consequently my ideals and expectations are far too high.”


“If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher. Overlong, detailed to the point of distraction-and ultimately, without a major resolution.”


“It's going to be all right, sir," Harry said over and over again, more worried by Dumbledore's silence than he had been by his weakened voice. "We're nearly there ... I can Apparate us both back ... don't worry ...""I am not worried, Harry," said Dumbledore, his voice a little stronger despite the freezing water. "I am with you.”


“Second star to the right and straight on 'til morning. ”


“You're the first Shadowhunter I've ever met." â€œThatâ€™s too bad,â€� said Jace, â€œsince all the others you meet from now on will be a terrible letdown.”


“When will you learn that there isn't a word for everything?”


“Alec looked at her and shook his head. "How do you manage never to get mud on your clothes?"Isabelle shrugged philosophically. "I'm pure at heart. It repels the dirt.”


“Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.”


“When you have lost hope, you have lost everything. And when you think all is lost, when all is dire and bleak, there is always hope.”


“What a blessing it is to love books as I love them;- to be able to converse with the dead, and to live amidst the unreal!”


“Why are you worrying about YOU-KNOW-WHO, when you should be worrying about YOU-NO-POO? The constipation sensation that's gripping the nation!”


“Words, I think, are such unpredictable creatures. No gun, no sword, no army or king will ever be more powerful than a sentence. Swords may cut and kill, but words will stab and stay, burying themselves in our bones to become corpses we carry into the future, all the time digging and failing to rip their skeletons from our flesh.”


“Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.”


“Magnus, standing by the door, snapped his fingers impatiently. "Move it along, teenagers. The only person who gets to canoodle in my bedroom is my magnificent self.""Canoodle?" repeated Clary, never having heard the word before."Magnificent?" repeated Jace, who was just being nasty. Magnus growled. The growl sounded like "Get out.”


“Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness.”


“I'm killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and happiness.”


“The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.”


“I was dead until you found me, though I breathed. I was sightless, though I could see. And then you came...and I was awakened.”


“Youâ€™re dangerous,â€� he says.â€œWhy?â€�â€œBecause you make me believe in the impossible”


“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.”


“The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”


“Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.”


“Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.”


“And then something invisible snapped insider her, and that which had come together commenced to fall apart.”


“The two hardest tests on the spiritual road are the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with what we encounter.”


“Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.”


“I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I'm afraid of. ”


“Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.”


“You might want to lie down," Magnus advised. "I find that it helps when the crushing sense of horrible realization sets in.”


“The world was collapsing, and the only thing that really mattered to me was that she was alive.”


“Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.”


“Um...is that thing tame?" Frank said.The horse whinnied angrily."I don't think so," Percy guessed. "He just said, 'I will trample you to death, silly Chinese Canadian baby man'.”


“This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until its done. It's that easy, and that hard.”


“They're certainly entitled to think that, and they're entitled to full respect for their opinions... but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.”


“In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since."Whenever you feel like criticizing any one," he told me, "just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.”


“You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.”


“People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren't already complicated enough.”


“make a radical change in your lifestyle and begin to boldly do things which you may previously never have thought of doing, or been too hesitant to attempt. So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservation, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun. If you want to get more out of life, you must lose your inclination for monotonous security and adopt a helter-skelter style of life that will at first appear to you to be crazy. But once you become accustomed to such a life you will see its full meaning and its incredible beauty.”


“Maybe our girlfriends are our soulmates and guys are just people to have fun with.”


“The earth has its music for those who will listen”


“When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.”


“A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.”


“We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.”


“When I say it's you I like, I'm talking about that part of you that knows that life is far more than anything you can ever see or hear or touch. That deep part of you that allows you to stand for those things without which humankind cannot survive. Love that conquers hate, peace that rises triumphant over war, and justice that proves more powerful than greed.”


“I wonder how many people don't get the one they want, but end up with the one they're supposed to be with.”


“When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so also are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape.”


“All happiness depends on courage and work.”


“Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.”


“All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer.”


“The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.”


“Holding anger is a poison...It eats you from inside...We think that by hating someone we hurt them...But hatred is a curved blade...and the harm we do to others...we also do to ourselves.”


“I have nothing to declare except my genius.”


“When someone is in your heart, they're never truly gone. They can come back to you, even at unlikely times.”


“Even After All this timeThe Sun never says to the Earth,"You owe me."LookWhat happensWith a love like that,It lights the whole sky.”


“But I didn't understand then. That I could hurt somebody so badly she would never recover. That a person can, just by living, damage another human being beyond repair.”


“You only live twice:Once when you are bornAnd once when you look death in the face”


“I don't go out with strangers," I said."Good thing I do. I'll pick you up at five.”


“We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.”


“To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,To the last syllable of recorded time;And all our yesterdays have lighted foolsThe way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,And then is heard no more. It is a taleTold by an idiot, full of sound and fury,Signifying nothing.”


“Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.”


“Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.”


“I know it's wrong - God, it's all kinds of wrong - but I just want to lie down with you and wake up with you, just once, just once ever in my life.”


“The future depends on what you do today.”


“Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.”


“Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.”


“If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character...Would you slow down? Or speed up?”


“Laughter is wine for the soul - laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness - the hilarious declaration made by man that life is worth living.”


“If you never did you should. These things are fun and fun is good.”


“Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.”


“The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.”


“Only a generation of readers will spawn a generation of writers.”


“I can't eat and I can't sleep. I'm not doing well in terms of being a functional human, you know?”


“You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.”


“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.”


“Can you surf really well, then?"I looked at Grover, who was trying hard not to laugh."Jeez, Nico," I said. "I've never really tried."He went on asking questions. Did I fight a lot with Thalia, since she was a daughter of Zeus? (I didn't answer that one.) If Annabeth's mother was Athena, the goddess of wisdom, then why didn't Annabeth know better than to fall off a cliff? (I tried not to strangle Nico for asking that one.) Was Annabeth my girlfriend? (At this point, I was ready to stick the kid in a meat-flavored sack and throw him to the wolves.)”


“Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.”


“There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.”


“The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”


“I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it -- to be fed so much love I couldn't take any more. Just once. ”


“...you know that a good, long session of weeping can often make you feel better, even if your circumstances have not changed one bit.”


“Don't cry over someone who wouldn't cry over you.”


“You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.”


“The things you used to own, now they own you.”


“If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.”


“You deal with mythological stuff for a few years, you learn that paradises are usually places where you get killed.”


“If someone were to harm my family or a friend or somebody I love, I would eat them. I might end up in jail for 500 years, but I would eat them.”


“If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.”


“We can't be afraid of change. You may feel very secure in the pond that you are in, but if you never venture out of it, you will never know that there is such a thing as an ocean, a sea. Holding onto something that is good for you now, may be the very reason why you don't have something better.”


“to love life, to love it evenwhen you have no stomach for itand everything you've held dearcrumbles like burnt paper in your hands,your throat filled with the silt of it.When grief sits with you, its tropical heatthickening the air, heavy as watermore fit for gills than lungs;when grief weights you like your own fleshonly more of it, an obesity of grief,you think, How can a body withstand this?Then you hold life like a facebetween your palms, a plain face,no charming smile, no violet eyes,and you say, yes, I will take youI will love you, again.”


“The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.”


“God, but life is loneliness, despite all the opiates, despite the shrill tinsel gaiety of "parties" with no purpose, despite the false grinning faces we all wear. 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 utter - they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long. Yes, there is joy, fulfillment and companionship - but the loneliness of the soul in its appalling self-consciousness is horrible and overpowering.”


“He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less.”


“I got schooled this yearbyaboy.A boy that I'm seriously, deeply, madly, incredibly, and undeniably in


“Iâ€™ve been fighting to be who I am all my life. Whatâ€™s the point of being who I am, if I canâ€™t have the person who was worth all the fighting for?”


“Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.”


“Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”


“Have you ever lost someone you love and wanted one more conversation, one more chance to make up for the time when you thought they would be here forever? If so, then you know you can go your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back.”


“Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood.”


“A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.”


“We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?”


“Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.”


“We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.”


“If books could have more, give more, be more, show more, they would still need readers who bring to them sound and smell and light and all the rest that canâ€™t be in books.	The book needs you.”


“If you're texting Magnus to say 'I think u r kewl,' I'm going to kill you.""Who's Magnus?" Max inquired."He's a warlock," said Alec."A sexy, sexy warlock," Isabelle told Max, ignoring Alec's look of total fury."But warlocks are bad," protested Max, looking baffled."Exactly," said Isabelle.”


“If no one cares for you at all, do you even really exist?”


“there are two types of people in the world: those who prefer to be sad among others, and those who prefer to be sad alone.”


“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.”


“Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard, are sweeter”


“Sometimes love means letting go when you want to hold on tighter.”


“A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.”


“The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in. Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only.”


“Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over instead of craving control over what you don't.”


“I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong.”


“A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.”


“I know how devastated you must be to miss me, but leave a message, and I'll try to ease your agony”


“Did you really want to die?""No one commits suicide because they want to die.""Then why do they do it?""Because they want to stop the pain.”


“The past is never where you think you left it.”


“The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only - and that is to support the ultimate career. ”


“I want to be in a relationship where you telling me you love me is just a ceremonious validation of what you already show me.”


“There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them.But they are there for a reason. Only when we have overcome them will we understand why they were there.”


“You could say sorry," suggested Harry bluntly. "What, and get attacked by another flock of canaries?" muttered Ron."What did you have to imitate her for?""She laughed at my mustache!""So did I, it was the stupidest thing I've ever seen.”


“Dreams are always crushing when they don't come true. But it's the simple dreams that are often the most painful because they seem so personal, so reasonable, so attainable. You're always close enough to touch, but never quite close enough to hold and it's enough to break your heart.”


“Demon pox, oh demon poxJust how is it acquired?One must go down to the bad part of townUntil one is very tired.Demon pox, oh demon pox, I had it all alongâ€”Not the pox, you foolish blocks,I mean this very songâ€”For I was right, and you were wrong!""Will!" Charlotte shouted over the noise, "Have you LOST YOUR MIND? CEASE THAT INFERNAL RACKET! Jemâ€”" Jem, rising to his feet, clapped his hands over Will's mouth. "Do you promise to be quiet?" he hissed into his friend's ear.Will nodded, blue eyes blazing. Tessa was staring at him in amazement; they all were. She had seen Will many thingsâ€”amused, bitter, condescending, angry, pityingâ€”but never giddy before.Jem let him go. "All right, then."Will slid to the floor, his back against the armchair, and threw up his arms. "A demon pox on all your houses!" he announced, and yawned."Oh, God, weeks of pox jokes," said Jem. "We're in for it now.”


“We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, thatâ€™s like saying you can never change your fate.”


“Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.”


“In one aspect, yes, I believe in ghosts, but we create them. We haunt ourselves.”


“Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.”


“Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”


“I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one.”


“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”


“A small but noteworthy note. I've seen so many young men over the years who think they're running at other young men. They are not. They are running at me.”


“I'm happy. Which often looks like crazy.”


“I guess that's what saying good-bye is always like--like jumping off an edge. The worst part is making the choice to do it. Once you're in the air, there's nothing you can do but let go.”


“Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it.”


“Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire.”


“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.”


“He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.”


“There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,There is a rapture on the lonely shore,There is society, where none intrudes,By the deep sea, and music in its roar:I love not man the less, but Nature more”


“Well, she's not responding to my advances," he observed more brightly than he felt, "so she must be dead." "Or she's a woman of good taste and sense.”


“Iâ€™m not in this world to live up to your expectations and youâ€™re not in this world to live up to mine.”


“Gus: "It tastes like..."Me: "Food."Gus: "Yes, precisely. It tastes like food, excellently prepared. But it does not taste, how do I put this delicately...?"Me: "It does not taste like God Himself cooked heaven into a series of five dishes which were then served to you accompanied by several luminous balls of fermented, bubbly plasma while actual and literal flower petals floated down around your canal-side dinner table."Gus: "Nicely phrased."Gus's father: "Our children are weird."My dad: "Nicely phrased.”


“If you stay, I'll do whatever you want. I'll quit the band, go with you to New York. But if you need me to go away, I'll do that, too. I was talking to Liz and she said maybe coming back to your old life would be too painful, that maybe it'd be easier for you to erase us. And that would suck, but I'd do it. I can lose you like that if I don't lose you today. I'll let you go. If you stay.”


“A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on. ”


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


“Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.”


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


“Atticus said to Jem one day, "Iâ€™d rather you shot at tin cans in the backyard, but I know youâ€™ll go after birds. Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit â€˜em, but remember itâ€™s a sin to kill a mockingbird." That was the only time I ever heard Atticus say it was a sin to do something, and I asked Miss Maudie about it. "Your fatherâ€™s right," she said. "Mockingbirds donâ€™t do one thing except make music for us to enjoy. They donâ€™t eat up peopleâ€™s gardens, donâ€™t nest in corn cribs, they donâ€™t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. Thatâ€™s why itâ€™s a sin to kill a mockingbird.”


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


“There must be something in books, something we canâ€™t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You donâ€™t stay for nothing.”


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


“Sometimes you lose a battle. But mischief always wins the war”


“God alert!" Blackjack yelled. "It's the wine dude!Mr. D sighed in exasperation. "The next person, or horse, who calls me the 'wine dude' will end up in a bottle of Merlot!”


“It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.”


“Maybe this world is another planetâ€™s hell.”


“Seventeen, eh!" said Hagrid as he accepted a bucket-sized glass of wine from Fred."Six years to the day we met, Harry, dâ€™yeh remember it?""Vaguely," said Harry, grinning up at him. "Didnâ€™t you smash down the front door, give Dudley a pigâ€™s tail, and tell me I was a wizard?""I forgeâ€™ the details," Hagrid chortled.”


“Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.”


“We learn from failure, not from success!”


“God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players [i.e. everybody], to being involved in an obscure and complex variant of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time.”


“We donâ€™t need a list of rights and wrongs, tables of dos and donâ€™ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever.”


“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.”


“I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception.”


“This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today.”


“But until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday," that person cannot say, "I choose otherwise.”


“I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing.”


“Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?”


“A short story is a different thing altogether â€“ a short story is like a quick kiss in the dark from a stranger.”


“To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.”


“There are perhaps many causes worth dying for, but to me, certainly, there are none worth killing for.”


“He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.”


“No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.”


“The mountains are calling and I must go.”


“My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.”


“Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind.”


“She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous strands, appreciating its subtle nuances. She was a prism through which sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum.”


“There is no such thing as a "broken family." Family is family, and is not determined by marriage certificates, divorce papers, and adoption documents. Families are made in the heart. The only time family becomes null is when those ties in the heart are cut. If you cut those ties, those people are not your family. If you make those ties, those people are your family. And if you hate those ties, those people will still be your family because whatever you hate will always be with you.”


“You're something between a dream and a miracle.”


“Reading is like thinking, like praying, like talking to a friend, like expressing your ideas, like listening to other people's ideas, like listening to music, like looking at the view, like taking a walk on the beach.”


“But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.”


“Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.”


“After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.”


“The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say.”


“Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.”


“Fear is a phoenix. You can watch it burn a thousand times and still it will return.”


“It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.”


“My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the heck she is.”


“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. ”


“Death is so terribly final, while life is full of possibilities.”


“Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.”


“I'm going to keep going until I succeed â€” or die. Don't think I don't know how this might end. I've known it for years.”


“I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey.”


“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human faceâ€”for ever.”


“Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.”


“If you are a student you should always get a good nights sleep unless you have come to the good part of your book, and then you should stay up all night and let your schoolwork fall by the wayside, a phrase which means 'flunk'.”


“Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires.”


“We are all born sexual creatures,thank God, but it's a pity so many people despise and crush this natural gift.”


“There is a saying in Tibetan, 'Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.'No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that's our real disaster.”


“It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”


“Life has no remote....get up and change it yourself!”


“I want to be the friend you fall hopelessly in love with. The one you take into your arms and into your bed and into the private world you keep trapped in your head. I want to be that kind of friend. The one who will memorize the things you say as well as the shape of your lips when you say them. I want to know every curve, every freckle, every shiver of your body. I want to know where to touch you, I want to know how to touch you. I want to know convince you to design a smile just for me. Yes, I do want to be your friend. I want to be your best friend in the entire world.”


“And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can't ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one. You wonder when your turn is going to be, or if it's already happened.”


“Jane, be still; don't struggle so like a wild, frantic bird, that is rending its own plumage in its desperation.""I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being, with an independent will; which I now exert to leave you.”


“Music is ... A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy”


“When things break, it's not the actual breaking that prevents them from getting back together again. It's because a little piece gets lost - the two remaining ends couldn't fit together even if they wanted to. The whole shape has changed.”


“To lose balance sometimes for love is part of living a balancedlife.”


“Damn, Claire. Warn a guy before you do a face-plant on the floor next time. I could have looked all heroic and caught you or something -Shane”


“Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.”


“Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it!”


“Never leave a friend behind. Friends are all we have to get us through this life--and they are the only things from this world that we could hope to see in the next.”


“It is not the length of life, but the depth.”


“When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better. ”


“Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not. ”


“The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd - The longing for impossible things, precisely because they are impossible; nostalgia for what never was; the desire for what could have been; regret over not being someone else; dissatisfaction with the worldâ€™s existence. All these half-tones of the soulâ€™s consciousness create in us a painful landscape, an eternal sunset of what we are.”


“I think and think and think, Iâ€˜ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.”


“Holding people away from you, and denying yourself love, that doesn't make you strong. if anything, it makes you weaker. Because you're doing it out of fear.”


“You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living. Then you read a bookâ€¦ or you take a tripâ€¦ and you discover that you are not living, that you are hibernating. The symptoms of hibernating are easily detectable: first, restlessness. The second symptom (when hibernating becomes dangerous and might degenerate into death): absence of pleasure. That is all. It appears like an innocuous illness. Monotony, boredom, death. Millions live like this (or die like this) without knowing it. They work in offices. They drive a car. They picnic with their families. They raise children. And then some shock treatment takes place, a person, a book, a song, and it awakens them and saves them from death. Some never awaken.”


“So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?”


“There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.”


“The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.”


“Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.”


“Can you be a girl for a few seconds?""I'm always a girl" I frown."You know what I mean. Like a silly, annoying girl"I twirl my hair around my finger. "Kay.”


“Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.”


“A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.”


“I don't suffer from my insanity -- I enjoy every minute of it.”


“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.”


“Help others without any reason and give without the expectation of receiving anything in return.”


“Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.”


“One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk.”


“It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.”


“Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.”


“Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.”


“Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present.”


“Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.”


“The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.”


“We rip out so much of ourselves to be cured of things faster than we should that we go bankrupt by the age of thirty and have less to offer each time we start with someone new. But to feel nothing so as not to feel anything - what a waste!”


“An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched. "Can they be brought together?" This is a practical question. We must get down to it. "I despise intelligence" really means: "I cannot bear my doubts.”


“I have accepted fear as part of life â€“ specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back....”


“Ideally, what should be said to every child, repeatedly, throughout his or her school life is something like this: 'You are in the process of being indoctrinated. We have not yet evolved a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination. We are sorry, but it is the best we can do. What you are being taught here is an amalgam of current prejudice and the choices of this particular culture. The slightest look at history will show how impermanent these must be. You are being taught by people who have been able to accommodate themselves to a regime of thought laid down by their predecessors. It is a self-perpetuating system. Those of you who are more robust and individual than others will be encouraged to leave and find ways of educating yourself â€” educating your own judgements. Those that stay must remember, always, and all the time, that they are being moulded and patterned to fit into the narrow and particular needs of this particular society.”


“If I should have a daughterâ€¦â€œInstead of â€œMomâ€�, sheâ€™s gonna call me â€œPoint B.â€� Because that way, she knows that no matter what happens, at least she can always find her way to me. And Iâ€™m going to paint the solar system on the back of her hands so that she has to learn the entire universe before she can say â€œOh, I know that like the back of my hand.â€�Sheâ€™s gonna learn that this life will hit you, hard, in the face, wait for you to get back up so it can kick you in the stomach. But getting the wind knocked out of you is the only way to remind your lungs how much they like the taste of air. There is hurt, here, that cannot be fixed by band-aids or poetry, so the first time she realizes that Wonder-woman isnâ€™t coming, Iâ€™ll make sure she knows she doesnâ€™t have to wear the cape all by herself. Because no matter how wide you stretch your fingers, your hands will always be too small to catch all the pain you want to heal. Believe me, Iâ€™ve tried.And â€œBaby,â€� Iâ€™ll tell her â€œdonâ€™t keep your nose up in the air like that, I know that trick, youâ€™re just smelling for smoke so you can follow the trail back to a burning house so you can find the boy who lost everything in the fire to see if you can save him. Or else, find the boy who lit the fire in the first place to see if you can change him.â€�But I know that she will anyway, so instead Iâ€™ll always keep an extra supply of chocolate and rain boats nearby, â€˜cause there is no heartbreak that chocolate canâ€™t fix. Okay, thereâ€™s a few heartbreaks chocolate canâ€™t fix. But thatâ€™s what the rain boots are for, because rain will wash away everything if you let it.I want her to see the world through the underside of a glass bottom boat, to look through a magnifying glass at the galaxies that exist on the pin point of a human mind. Because thatâ€™s how my mom taught me. That thereâ€™ll be days like this, â€œThereâ€™ll be days like this my momma saidâ€� when you open your hands to catch and wind up with only blisters and bruises. When you step out of the phone booth and try to fly and the very people you wanna save are the ones standing on your cape. When your boots will fill with rain and youâ€™ll be up to your knees in disappointment and those are the very days you have all the more reason to say â€œthank you,â€� â€˜cause there is nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline no matter how many times itâ€™s sent away.You will put the â€œwindâ€� in win some lose some, you will put the â€œstarâ€� in starting over and over, and no matter how many land mines erupt in a minute be sure your mind lands on the beauty of this funny place called life.And yes, on a scale from one to over-trusting I am pretty damn naive but I want her to know that this world is made out of sugar. It can crumble so easily but donâ€™t be afraid to stick your tongue out and taste it.â€œBaby,â€� Iâ€™ll tell her â€œremember your mama is a worrier but your papa is a warrior and you are the girl with small hands and big eyes who never stops asking for more.â€�Remember that good things come in threes and so do bad things and always apologize when youâ€™ve done something wrong but donâ€™t you ever apologize for the way your eyes refuse to stop shining.Your voice is small but donâ€™t ever stop singing and when they finally hand you heartbreak, slip hatred and war under your doorstep and hand you hand-outs on street corners of cynicism and defeat, you tell them that they really ought to meet your mother.”


“If we listened to our intellect we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go in business because we'd be cynical: "It's gonna go wrong." Or "She's going to hurt me." Or,"I've had a couple of bad love affairs, so therefore . . ." Well, that's nonsense. You're going to miss life. You've got to jump off the cliff all the time and build your wings on the way down.”


“When someone you love dies, and you're not expecting it, you don't lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces over a long timeâ€”the way the mail stops coming, and her scent fades from the pillows and even from the clothes in her closet and drawers. Gradually, you accumulate the parts of her that are gone. Just when the day comesâ€”when there's a particular missing part that overwhelms you with the feeling that she's gone, foreverâ€”there comes another day, and another specifically missing part.”


“What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? - it's the too-huge world vaulting us, and it's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.”


“I address you all tonight for who you truly are: wizards, mermaids, travelers, adventurers, and magicians. You are the true dreamers.”


“Hang on, did you just call me Angel?" I asked."If I did?""I don't like it."He grinned. "It stays, Angel.”


“That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty, even if they're not much to look at, or even if they're sort of stupid, you fall in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are. Girls. Jesus Christ. They can drive you crazy. They really can.”


“You think the dead we loved ever truly leave us? You think that we don't recall them more clearly in times of great trouble?”


“I don't care," Clary said. "He'd do it for me. Tell me he wouldn't. If I were missing-" "He'd burn the whole world down till he could dig you out of the ashes. I know," Alec said.”


“Believe in your infinite potential. Your only limitations are those you set upon yourself.”


“You're a guardian angel now." I was still too much in awe to wrap my mind around it, but at the same time I felt amazement, curiosity...happiness."I'm your guardian angel," he said."I get my very own guardian angel? What, exactly, is your job description?""Guard your body." His smile tipped higher. "I take my job seriously, which means I'm going to need to get acquainted with the subject matter on a personal level.”


“Sometimes it takes a good fall to really know where you stand”