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

Cassandra Clare,

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

Cassandra Clare,

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

Cassandra Clare,

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

Confucius

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

Terry Pratchett,

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

Carl Gustav Jung

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

Coco Chanel,

“Compassion is the basis of morality.”

Arthur Schopenhauer

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

Oscar Wilde,

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

Confucious

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

Oscar Wilde,

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

David Mitchell,

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

Lady Gaga

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

Jay Asher,

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

Cassandra Clare,

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

Oprah Winfrey

“People have forgotten this truth," the fox said. "But you mustn’t forget it. You become responsible forever for what you’ve tamed. You’re responsible for your rose.”

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry,

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

Jennifer L. Armentrout,

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

John Green,

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

Milan Kundera,

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

Eoin Colfer,

“I like good strong words that mean something…”

Louisa May Alcott,

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

Henry Miller,

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

Eleanor Roosevelt

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

J.M. Barrie,

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

Paulo Coelho,

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

Charles M. Schulz

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

Paulo Coelho,

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

Marcus Aurelius,

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

Dr. Seuss,

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

Caitlyn Siehl,

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

Sylvia Plath,

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

Audrey Hepburn

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

Lewis Carroll,

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

Ayn Rand

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

Madeline Miller,

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

Douglas Adams,

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

George Carlin

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

Ray Bradbury,

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

Zig Ziglar

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

C. S. Lewis

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

Mark Twain

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

Marilyn Monroe

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

Barack Obama

“Honestly, if you were any slower, you’d be going backward.”

J.K. Rowling,

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

Nicholas Sparks,

“Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.”

Oscar Wilde

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

Steve Maraboli,

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

Edgar Allan Poe

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

Robert Ingersoll

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

Rick Riordan

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

Pablo Neruda

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

C.S. Lewis

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

Frank Zappa

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

Nicholas Sparks

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

Elizabeth Gilbert,

“Jesper knocked his head against the hull and cast his eyes heavenward. “Fine. But if Pekka Rollins kills us all, I’m going to get Wylan’s ghost to teach my ghost how to play the flute just so that I can annoy the hell out of your ghost.â€�Brekker’s lips quirked. “I’ll just hire Matthias’ ghost to kick your ghost’s ass.â€�“My ghost won’t associate with your ghost,â€� Matthias said primly, and then wondered if the sea air was rotting his brain.”

Leigh Bardugo,

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

Charles Dickens

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

Cassandra Clare,

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

Kurt Vonnegut,

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

François de La Rochefoucauld

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

Plato

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

Markus Zusak,

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

Sylvia Plath,

“I'm oxygen and he's dying to breathe.”

Tahereh Mafi,

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

W.B. Yeats

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

Napoleon Bonaparte

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

Veronica Roth,

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

C.S. Lewis

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

Margaret Atwood

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

Rick Riordan,

“Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak!”

J.K. Rowling,

“Let our scars fall in love.”

Galway Kinnell

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

Francois Mauriac

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

Jim Morrison

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

Lev Grossman,

“A lot of you cared, just not enough.”

Jay Asher,

“Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you’re good, bad things can still happen. And if you’re bad, you can still be lucky.”

Barbara Kingsolver,

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

Dorothy Parker

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

Louisa May Alcott,

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

T.S. Eliot

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

William Wordsworth

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

Kate DiCamillo,

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

Marguerite Duras

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

Robert Orben

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

Dr. Seuss,

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Umberto Eco,

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

Zelda Fitzgerald,

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

Mark Twain

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

Cassandra Clare,

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

C.S. Lewis

“My library is an archive of longings.”

Susan Sontag,

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

Herbert Hoover

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

Joseph Heller,

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

J.R.R. Tolkien,

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

Rick Riordan,

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

Christopher Paolini

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

Vladimir Nabokov,