Every accepted public quote

“Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.”

“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the gr...”

“Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.”

“It is one of life's bitterest truths that bedtime so often arrives just when things are really getting interesting.”

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

“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”

“Where there is love there is life.”

“Life is only precious because it ends, kid. Take it from a god. You mortals don't know how lucky you are”

“I don't trust people who don't love themselves and tell me, 'I love you.' ... There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.”

“People haven't always been there for me but music always has.”

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

“There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books.”

“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.”

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

“A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them.”

“I figured something out. The future is unpredictable.”

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

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

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

“Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!”

“You never fail until you stop trying.”

“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, Nothing is going to get better. It's not.”

“It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.”

“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.”

“Not all those who wander are lost.”

“Deciding whether or not to trust a person is like deciding whether or not to climb a tree because you might get a wonderful view from the highest branch or you might simply get covered in sa...”

“Augustus Waters was a self-aggrandizing bastard. But we forgive him. We forgive him not because he had a heart as figuratively good as his literal one sucked, or because he knew more about h...”

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

“Dear God, wherever we choose to stay, be with us. When we choose to leave, go with us. ~Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu”

“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”

“I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”

“Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.”

“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”

“I may die young, but at least I'll die smart.”

“If you are allergic to a thing, it is best not to put that thing in your mouth, particularly if the thing is cats.”

“I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.”

“Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's wo...”

“I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.”

“To escape death, she'd become death.”

“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”

“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”

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

“I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.”

“It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.”

“Always do what you are afraid to do.”

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

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

“When someone is crying, of course, the noble thing to do is to comfort them. But if someone is trying to hide their tears, it may also be noble to pretend you do not notice them.”