Every accepted public quote

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

“People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed.”

“Angry people are not always wise.”

“but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.”

“Break my heart. Break it a thousand times if you like. It was only ever yours to break anyway.”

“If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it.”

“Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.”

“Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?”

“God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas but for scars.”

“Happiness is a warm puppy.”

“Everyone, at some point in their lives, wakes up in the middle of the night with the feeling that they are all alone in the world, and that nobody loves them now and that nobody will ever lo...”

“Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.”

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

“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.”

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

“What’s the point in having a mind if you don’t use it to make judgments?’ ‘What’s the point in having a heart if you don’t use it to spare others from the harsh judgments of your mind?”

“He gripped her hard, forcing her to meet his eyes as he snarled, “I see you. I see every part of you. And I am not afraid.” I will not be afraid. A line in the burning brightness. My name is...”

“Annabeth pressed her lips to Percy’s ear. “I love you.” She wasn’t sure he could hear her—but if they died, she wanted those to be her last words.”

“Be grateful for what you already have while you pursue your goals. If you aren’t grateful for what you already have, what makes you think you would be happy with more.”

“There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.”

“Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.”

“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...”

“Books may well be the only true magic.”

“We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.”

“The scariest moment is always just before you start.”

“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”

“There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.”

“Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.”

“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”

“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”

“It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything, I still believe that peop...”

“I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to c...”

“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”

“Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.”

“Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.”

“I was smiling yesterday,I am smiling today and I will smile tomorrow.Simply because life is too short to cry for anything.”

“I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.”

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

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

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

“I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.”

“Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”

“I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.”

“Great minds are always feared by lesser minds.”

“I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.”

“I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.”

“Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory...”