Every accepted public quote

“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”

“Please, Percy...change your clothes. You smell like you've been run over by an electric horse.”

“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.”

“Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?”

“I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart)I am never without it (anywhere I go you go,my dear; and whatever is done by only me is your doing,my darling) I fear no fate (for you are...”

“It hurts to let go. Sometimes it seems the harder you try to hold on to something or someone the more it wants to get away. You feel like some kind of criminal for having felt, for having wa...”

“Love is needing someone. Love is putting up with someone's bad qualities because they somehow complete you.”

“Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”

“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”

“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”

“Fire is catching! And if we burn, you burn with us!”

“We're all human, aren't we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.”

“There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.”

“Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.”

“Cauldron save you. Mother hold you. Pass through the gates, and smell that immortal land of milk and honey. Fear no evil. Feel no pain. Go, and enter eternity.”

“You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.”

“But death was her curse and her gift, and death had been her good friend these long, long years.”

“Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”

“Fear can’t be reasoned with. Neither can hate. They’re like love. They’re almost identical emotions. That’s why Ares and Aphrodite like each other. Their twin sons – Fear and Panic – were sp...”

“I'm not married,” he said softly, “because I can't stomach the idea of marrying a woman inferior to me in mind and spirit. It would mean the death of my soul.”

“Peeta, how come I never know when you're having a nightmare?” I say. “I don't know. I don't think I cry out or thrash around or anything. I just come to, paralyzed with terror,” he says. “Yo...”

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

“The Road Not Taken Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the unde...”

“Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.”

“Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.”

“Hearts are made to be broken.”

“Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.”

“For the two of us, home isn't a place. It is a person. And we are finally home.”

“When I look at my room, I see a girl who loves books.”

“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”

“The best lies were always mixed with truth.”

“"I see her slipping away, bit by bit, because you shove her down when she so desperately needs someone to help her back up."”

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

“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.”

“Don't Panic.”

“All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.”

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

“Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out.”

“Percy pulled Annabeth close and kissed her...long enough for it to get really awkward for Piper, though she said nothing. She thought about the old rule of Aphrodite's cabin: that to be reco...”

“She was a wolf. She was death, devourer of the worlds.”

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

“The only way that we can live, is if we grow. The only way that we can grow is if we change. The only way that we can change is if we learn. The only way we can learn is if we are exposed. A...”

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

“Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.”

“My tastes are simple: I am easily satisfied with the best.”

“Reader's Bill of Rights 1. The right to not read 2. The right to skip pages 3. The right to not finish 4. The right to reread 5. The right to read anything 6. The right to escapism 7. The ri...”

“Everyone should be able to do one card trick, tell two jokes, and recite three poems, in case they are ever trapped in an elevator.”

“I see all of you, Rhys. And there is not one part that I do not love with everything I am.”